If On A Winter's Night by Sting, released 3 March 2010, includes the following tracks: "There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue", "Christmas At Sea", "Cold Song", "Now Winter Comes Slowly" and more.
This version of If On A Winter's Night comes as a 1xCD. -
2009 release from the multi-million selling singer, songwriter, musician and former leader of the Police. This release is dedicated to Sting's favorite season, Winter: A season which has inspired countless songwriters over the centuries and produced a wealth of music exploring all of it's many guises. If on a Winter's Night... presents an arc of songs that conjures the season of spirits, resulting in a haunting, spiritual and reflective musical journey. 'The theme of winter is rich in inspiration and material,' comments Sting; 'by filtering all of these disparate styles into one album, I hope we have created something refreshing and new.'
This is an album that tries too hard. On the premise of bringing together winter songs from several centuries, Sting has created a collection that?s ...
Mark Millan - 24/Dec/2009
Rather than join the cavalcade of pop and rock stars who have recorded Christmas albums, Sting chose to record an album of songs based on his favorite...
Dave Simpson - 11/Dec/2009
Despite the short-lived reunion of the Police, Sting's solo career continues to journey far from that sound. Following 2006's experiments with an Eliz...
Bugs Burnett - 03/Dec/2009
Sting's dour persona and voice are perfectly suited to this mostly acoustic 15-track album of Christmas songs, notably the lead-off Gabriel's Message,...
Simon Price - 01/Nov/2009
In which our lute-toting born-again curator of Early Music puts the Police comeback to bed and releases an album of broadly winter-themed songs which ...
Andy Gill - 30/Oct/2009
Named after Italo Calvino's meta-fiction If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, this is Sting's second album for the German classical label, following hi...
Stephen Thomas Erlewine - 26/Oct/2009
It's no secret that Sting is a serious man, so it's only logical that his holiday album — his first new music since the Police reunion, not that...
Tobias Litterst - 17/Nov/2009
Wenn in einer Winternacht der Schnee in dicken Flocken vom Himmel fällt und irgendwo im Warmen ein paar Musiker beieinander sitzen, so ist die Luft ni...