These sweet, flowing Christmas melodies will make your holiday cheerful and bright. A gentle acoustic ensemble featuring flute and guitar takes traditional tunes and turns them into memorable songs that will stay with you long after the holidays have passed. Lorraine’s dulcet flute dances delightfully with Robert’s acoustic guitar as the music swirls in the air like a Christmas Eve snow flurry.

The best instrumental version of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is on A Christmas Wish. Like a the whisper of a gentle winter wind Lorraine Rousseau’s flute beckons you to cozy up to a warm fire, wrap you hand around a hot drink and gather your beloved family near you.

Robert Carlton’s guitar leads softly on the cut The First Noel. It doesn’t matter if you first heard the song in grammar school or Radio City Music Hall. The rendition will live in your mind and heart throughout the year.

Rating: Excellent
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A Christmas Wish consists of a collection of traditional Christmas carols performed by Lorraine Rousseau (flute) and Robert Carlton (guitar) along with various other musicians. Whether you’re enjoying a quiet get together with family or friends, a warm cup of cider by the fire or a good book, Rousseau and Carlton’s instrumental CD will provide an enjoyable listening experience.
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After a measured introduction, The Huron Carol begins this upbeat musical experience with authority and alacrity, quickly hitting its stride and taking the listener on a lively holiday journey. Robert Carlton's able fretwork sets the pace, and Lorraine Rousseau's flute easily keeps up. I wouldn't have imagined the flute to play a starring role in such an energetic Christmas CD as this. But where Carlton's guitar focuses this vehicle's energy, Rousseau's flute smooths the ride. 

I was pleased to see a record that stuck with the classics and played them for all they're worth. Some of the work could be called smooth jazz, but it is so smooth that I almost forgot to label it jazz at all. But for all their smoothness and elegance, these musicians imbue their work with force and vigor. At the same time, I felt that if I were to turn the volume down this music would relax me as much as any new age ambience. This one would play well during those last few days in the office, before the holidays begin, or on Christmas Eve's Eve, when you are wrapping up too many last minute packages. Use the vibrant energy of A Christmas Wish to get ready for the holidays
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In A Christmas Wish their second album, Rousseau and Carlton decided to give their vision of traditional Christmas carols. This task was not so easy - many brilliant musicians have paid their tribute to beautiful Christmas music. Among them Richard Clayderman, Kenny G and George Winston. Still Rousseau and Carlton brilliantly succeeded in making a new form of presenting traditional Christmas songs. And - here we have another miracle and another mystery. All the compositions, even the most famous ones, such as O Holy Night, What Child is This and Silent Night have obtained a new, very calm, tender and meditational sound - first of all thanks to the magical flute of Lorraine Rousseau and masterly guitar of Robert Carlton. Of course the sound of A Christmas Wish was realized thanks to the perfect help of other musicians ( most of them helped to record Its a Mystery) - Vernon Dorge (alto and soprano saxophone), Scott Alexander (acoustic bass), Brian Leonard (drums, percussion), Howard Baer (orchestrator, midi sound design). In my view, this work can be compared with the best albums released by the famous Windham Hill musicians, and it can be considered one of the best in the field of new age music. Listen to the wonderful meditative music of A Christmas Wish all year round, and Christmas spirit, special feelings and waiting for miracles to come, will always be with you.
The Jazz Magazine, Minsk
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