content: I have been listening to this album for almost 10 years. I wore out my tape copy from constantly studying to it in college and had to replace it with a CD. It is wonderful all year, not just at Christmas. Everytime I play it someone always requests a copy. Everyone is correct about the first track being nearly inaudible at first, but the rest is so good that it is just a minor annoyance. This album has all the old favorites the way they were originally heard and the way the composer intended them to sound. Absolutely not commercialized.