Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so is Ritchie blackmore. Winter carols is the result of a lot of hard work: months and months of sweat and tears. 194 musicians crammed into a recording studio, day and night for 2 and a half years. Ritchie blackmore proudly sails on the seas of pop with their eyes set firmly on a horizon of miraculous sound. I say fiddlesticks to those who think that Winter carols is the shame of the annees classiques.