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These Are Special Times
Pop · 1998 · 15 tracks

These Are Special Times

Céline Dion

Orchestral holiday standards and original ballads delivered with operatic power. A high-gloss, sentimental winter classic defined by massive vocal crescendos.

October 31, 1998 · Sony 550 Music

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A grand, shimmering embrace of holiday tradition that feels both deeply intimate and cinematically vast.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
O Holy Night
5:22
02
Don’t Save It All for Christmas Day
4:38
03
Blue Christmas
3:49
04
Another Year Has Gone By
3:25
05
The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)
4:18
06
Ave Maria
4:56
07
Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)
4:44
08
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
4:14
10
Brahms’ Lullaby
3:32
11
Christmas Eve
4:17
12
These Are the Special Times
4:08
13
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
4:15
15
Feliz Navidad
3:41
16
Les Cloches du Hameau
3:13
17
My Heart Will Go On (no lead vox)
4:42
Moments Worth Waiting For
The glass-shattering high note at the climax of O Holy Night that seems to suspend time.
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How does These Are Special Times sound next to the rest of Céline Dion's catalogue?

Spirituality+2.4σ

The writing leans far further into spirituality than the rest of the catalogue.

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