35th Anniversary Box Set...Christmas Albums question.....

[Chris May]

Does anyone know (perhaps you, Randy) if the Christmas albums included in the 35th Anniversary set contain all of the original mixes? I have the (2) supposedly 'remastered' Christmas albums from Japan, but they are just individually packaged split versions of the "Christmas Collection" and are smothered with remixes (at least "Christmas Portrait" is). Just curious if anyone had any info on this... -Chris

 

[close2u]

Not sure, but the only clue I have seen comes from a recent update from Yuka Ogura. She says:

"'Ave Maria' is going to be WITH the choir. Richard mentions that the
track should have included choir in the first place. But when they
worked on "Christmas Portrait" they were many people and many works to be involved, they misplaced the choir tracks. When Richard realized Ave
Maria was without Choir, it was too late for him to fix it. So.....
originally choir should have been there, therefore, Ave Maria is with
choir."

Me again --
It's my guess that Richard may be releasing the CHRISTMAS COLLECTION version of PORTRAIT since Yuka says it WILL include the choir. I have not heard anything to confirm or deny this though.

Randy