It has become a fact of life that shelves and iTunes stores will be flooded with holiday-themed albums around this time of year. Like clockwork, we'll pick them up, play them constantly right up until the last relative waves goodbye and then away they go until next November. With her first Christmas album, soprano Sarah Brightman may have just given us a new tradition that, at least contains moments that transcend the very season it was intended for. Aside from a campy, show tune rendition of Roy Wood's [Electric Light Orchestra] "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday," much of A Winter Symphony is on a level with the operatic opus that was Brightman's January '08 release, Symphony. Larger-than-life arrangements and the pop/opera star's angelic voice make Christmas staples such as "Silent Night," "Jesu, The Joy Of Man's Desire," "Child In A Manger" and both versions of "Ave Maria" (one being a duet with Fernando Lima) included on the album slide right into place alongside

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