Christmas Portrait

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艺人: Carpenters
语种: 英语
厂牌: A&M Records
发行时间: 1978年10月13日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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木匠兄妹在1978年在电视上演出了特别节目The Carpentes －Christmas Portrait，在那个节目里兄妹演唱了众多的圣诞歌曲，并于当年精选了部分作品作为圣诞专辑发行，并取名为Christmas Portriat。1984年卡伦去世后，理查德又利用以前的音源把剩下的一部分圣诞歌曲编辑成他们的第二张圣诞专辑Old-Fashioned Christmas 。1985年，理查德决定发行CD版的圣诞专辑，容量几乎可以容下前两次的所有歌曲，所以他把前两次专辑的歌曲进一步精选并进行混合重排，出版了现在这张 Christmas Portrait。歌曲从1950年由一位教堂牧师作词，波士顿作曲家作曲的赞美诗It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 开始，接着是序曲，一系列圣诞歌曲的联唱，其中Happy Holiday是Irving Berlin作曲。第三曲Old-Fashioned Christmas 是兄妹的原创歌曲。将圣诞气氛烘托到高潮是第15曲和第16曲的联唱，其中会听到兄妹创作的独有的衔接部分，在卡伦演唱的《圣母颂》之后是柴可夫斯基的《胡桃夹子》的器乐联奏，同样是圣诞来临之际常被演奏的曲目。最后在《平安夜》中结束。

虽然全篇并非都是由兄妹演唱贯穿，但是整张专辑的曲目编排有着完整的结构和概念，也是Carpenters尽其艺术生命向听众奉献的圣诞礼物，直到现在仍能沁人心脾，值得一听。

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Christmas Portrait is the first Christmas album recorded by The Carpenters (and the only one issued during Karen Carpenter's lifetime), originally released on October 13, 1978 (A&M 4726).

The album sold one million copies and included a revised version of the group's signature Christmas song, &Merry Christmas Darling&. It also includes one of two versions of &Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town&. (A slower version, recorded in 1974, as well as other unused songs recorded during this album's sessions, were issued on the Carpenters' later Christmas album, An Old-Fashioned Christmas.)

The CD version of Christmas Portrait, issued in 1984, is a compendium of selected tracks from the Carpenters' two Christmas albums into one 74-minute program, with tracks from each interspersed in the running order; &Ave Maria& was remixed at this time in order to include a choral track that went missing in 1978 and was later found.. (A CD of the original LP content was briefly issued exclusively in West Germany around the same time.) In 1996 (1998 in the US), a two-CD set titled Christmas Collection was issued internationally, containing Christmas Portrait and An Old-Fashioned Christmas together in their original respective tracklists. Richard Carpenter remixed most of the album tracks for Christmas Portrait due to deteriorated masters.

In December 2011, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 album sales chart at No. 150 and eventually achieved a new chart peak position of No. 126.

In December 2012, the album again re-entered the Billboard 200 album sales chart and attained a new chart peak position of No. 114.

Christmas Portrait

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