Featuring Two Out of Three Tenors and…

Featuring Two Out of Three Tenors and a Soprano, “A Celebration of Natalie Cole, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo

A Celebration of Christmas (Elektra) (star) (star) 1/2

Michael Bolton

This is the Time: The Christmas Album (Columbia) (star)

Christmas” documents the trio’s 1995 concert/PBS special. Lavishly orchestrated and rapturously sung, this mix of classical, devotional and traditional music is at times exquisite, at others ponderous in its self-consciously high-brow tone. Domingo, Wynonna. Wynonna, Domingo — both have cameos on Bolton’s “This is the Time,” as the mousse that roars subjects holiday classics and two originals to his vocal showboating.