The Windham Hill Winter Solstice Re-Hash Albums
Re-Hash, Re-Collected, Re-Packaged, etc, BMG and Sony released around 12 albums between 1996 and 2010 that repackaged songs previously recorded on either other Windham Hill-Holiday albums, or sometimes non-Holiday themed albums. Independent Era Windham Hill released 1 re-packaged album in 1991. In some cases songs featured were, like in the early Winter Solstice days, pulled from artists' individual album releases (Scott Cossu's brilliant Last Snow is featured on the last track of the 1997 album First Snow but was originally recorded on his album Switchback). Some of these albums, particularly those packaged by Sony Legacy are easier to locate (and more popular) than others. I had trouble finding details on a few albums, feel free to message me if you have details I'm missing.
The Joy of Giving
Nordstrom Exclusive
Released: 1991
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson,
Cookie Marenco,
Will Ackerman
Guitars And Other Stringed Things
Released: 1996
Producer:
Ron Sacks
The White Album
Released: 1997
Producer:
Ron Sacks
Best of Carols of Christmas
Released: 1998
Producer:
Andrea Franklin (?)
The Holiday Sounds of Windham Hill
Released: 1998
Producer:
Andrea Franklin (?)
A Celtic Christmas Celebration
Released: 1999
Producer:
Unknown
Carols of Christmas Collection
Released: 1999
Producer:
Unknown
'Tis the Season - A Windham Hill Holiday Sampler
Released: 2002
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson
Sounds of the Season
Released: 2003
Producer:
Stuart Pressman
Very Best of Celtic Christmas
Released: 2004
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson
The Essential
Winter's Solstice
Released: 2005
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson
Celtic Christmas
Barnes & Noble Collection
Released: 2006
Producer: Unknown
Windham Hill Holiday Guitar Colleciton
Released: 2006
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson
Winter Solstice -
A Barnes & Noble Exclusive
Released: 2006
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson
Winter's Songs
Released: 2010
Producer:
Didier Deutsch,
Cathleen Murphy
for Sony Masterworks
The Dancing Cat Releases
Dancing Cat released two slack-key guitar Holiday albums, focusing on Hawaiian and traditional seasonal music from Dancing Cat's roster of slack-key guitarists. Both albums are produced by George Winston and show a prolific sampler of musicians and interesting early output from Dancing Cat.
Ki Ho'alu Christmas
Released: 1996
Producer:
George Winston
Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas
Released: 2000
Producer:
George Winston
The Promotional Releases
When CDs were cheap and FM radio was a big money maker, record companies would often press fast promotional copies for radio review, testimonials and critical reviews as well as for gift and giveaway samplers. I wouldn't doubt BMG released more than what's featured here, but this is what I could find.
A Windham Wonderland 1997
Released: 1997
A Windham Wonderland 1998
Released: 1998
Winter Wonderland
Released: 1999
The Artist Releases
A few Windham Hill Artists released Winter or "Holiday" themed albums in their own catalog. Here is the listing of Artist albums that were Winter or "Holiday" themed.
December
George Winston
Released: 1982
Producer:
William Ackerman and George Winston
The Gift
Liz Story
Released: 1994
Producer:
Dawn Atkinson
The Gift
Jim Brickman
Released: 1997
Producer:
David Pringle
and Jim Brickman
Page Under Construction, More Coming Soon
I plan to add detailed pages on each of the albums above along with track listings. I will also add a section that showcases every individual artist album (including Liz Story's The Gift, George Winston's December, among others) in the coming weeks. Happy Winter Solstice!