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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Verbum caro factum est - a Christmas Greeting Bach Collegium Japan Chorus / Masaaki Suzuki (direction), Masato Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] "The performances are typically classy, and punctuated by a selection of Daquin's 'Noels' for solo organ, played with peppery registrations by Suzuki" BBC Music |
ANONYMOUS
A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est Boston Camerata, Anne Azema [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Sep/2021 ] Drawing on a wide variety of sources, mingling liturgical Latin with French, English, Italian and Iberian vernaculars, these magnificent songs, hymns and processionals show the multitude of ways in which the birth of Christ was celebrated in medieval... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] It's Christmas! Graham Ross invites you to explore the highly individual conception of traditional carols offered by twentieth-century British composers, and notably the most eminent among them, Benjamin Britten. Arranged around his famous Ceremony... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jonas Kaufmann - It's Christmas! Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Jochen Rieder [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] With his new album It's Christmas! Jonas Kaufmann echoes his own holiday memories and joys, celebrating the most festive time of the year with a unique selection of beloved songs and carols. It's full of traditional German songs he used to sing round... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jonas Kaufmann - It's Christmas! - Extended Version Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Jochen Rieder [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] An extended Christmas album from Jonas Kaufmann, one of the world's most acclaimed and celebrated tenors. As ever, Kaufmann shows his versatility across 49 songs from around the world, covering an impressive variety of languages and musical styles... |
MOZART / BACH / SCHUBERT / HANDEL / DONIZETTI / TRADITIONAL / etc
Kathleen Battle Edition Kathleen Battle, with Jessye Norman, Christopher Parkening, Itzhak Perlman, etc [ Deutche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2023 ] A Limited Edition, Original Jackets collection showcasing the artistry of the magnificent American soprano, Kathleen Battle. |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: A Christmas oratorio (Un Oratorio de Noel) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed some of the most important works of seventeenth-century French music on the subject of the Nativity and its tutelary figure, the Virgin Mary, from dramatic oratorios in Latin to secular cantatas in the vernacular.... |
CANTATE DOMINO
Cantate Domino - A most euphonious selection of Christmas music! Marianne Mellnas (soprano) Alf Linder (organ) / Oscar's Motet Choir / Torsten Nilsson [ Proprius / CD - released 1/Dec/2004 ] Cantate Domino, recorded by Bertil Alving 1976, is famous for it's incredible sound quality. The CD starts with Enrico Bossi's "Cantate Domino" for choir, organ, trumpets and trombones. A wonderful piece with a stunning organ introduction. Included... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas a Cappella II Musica Sacra conducted by Indra Hughes [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 20/Nov/2007 ] This is the second programme of unaccompanied Christmas choral music performed by one of New Zealand's most successful choirs and includes a wide variety of pieces: the well known and the unfamiliar. |
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen
Veni: Songs of Christmas II [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2023 ] December is a time of anticipation. We wait and we hope - veni, come! The songs on this album encompass many nuances and moods - from joy and jubilant celebration to deep melancholy and longing. They move between folk tunes, English carols and... |
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Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Laughton, Gregory Peck, Loretta Young (narrators)
Stories for Christmas [includes 'The Small One' & 'The Happy Prince'] [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "For the Christmas stocking, Ronald Colman as Scrooge and Charles Laughton as Mr. Pickwick … would be perfect." Gramophone, January 2006 (A Christmas Carol, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas) |
TRADITIONAL
Christmas In New York Renee Fleming, with guests incls Rufus Wainwright, Chris Botti, Gregory Porter & Wynton Marsalis [ Decca / CD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] American soprano Renee Fleming's first-ever holiday album celebrates the beloved and iconic Christmas season in New York City. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Christmas Night Classical and Traditional Favourites (LP) Various Artists [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] With selections ranging from Praetorius to Britten, plus all-time favourites by J.S. Bach (The Christmas Oratorio) and Handel (Messiah), this album brings together some of the most beautiful and justly famous musical settings of the Nativity story.... |
Baroque Christmas: Sanctus
[ Alto / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "this is a studiously well-curated programme (by Jeffrey Skidmore) of music for the Nativity, almost all from the baroque period. In our view It provides a superior and enjoyable listening experience for Christmas-time" (MusicalMerit) "Recommended... |
Christmas Poetry & Prose: Read by Great Voices
[ Alto / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "Few things capture Christmas as well as poetry, and many have become standard, including ones whose verses became carols too" Readers include: Alec Guinness, Robert Donat, Richard Burton, Dulcie Gray, Dylan Thomas Robert Frost, Annette... |
Alfred Deller
Christmas Carols & Motets [ Musical Concepts / 4 CD - released 17/Nov/2008 ] Musical Concepts is pleased to announce the third release in one of the most ambitious early music reissue projects of all time - Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings. The series brings together every recording made by Alfred Deller - as... |
André Rieu
Silver Bells [ Polydor / 2 CD/DVD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] It's the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas trees are warming, treats are the sweetest and anyone under the mistletoe gets a kiss. But the holiday season wouldn't be perfect without the delightful music of André Rieu! The CD & Bonus DVD is... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jolly Holiday [CD/DVD] Andre Rieu [ Universal / CD/DVD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] It has long been a dream of André Reu to perform a Christmas concert in his hometown. And that dream came true! |
TRADITIONAL
A Family Christmas Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, Virginia Bocelli [ Classics & Jazz UK / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] This holiday season, internationally renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli is teaming up with his 24-year-old son Matteo Bocelli and 10-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli for their first ever album together, A Family Christmas. A Family Christmas... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Andreas Scholl, Barbara Schlick, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] |
GOTTFRIED HEINRICH STOLZEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stölzel - Christmas Oratorio (Cantatas 6 - 10) Britta Schwarz (Mezzo Soprano), Henning Voss (Alto) Jan Kobow (tenor) Klaus Mertens (bass) / Weimarer Barockensemble, Ludger Rémy [ CPO / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] Recorded Weimar, Redoute, January, 2000 |
Celtic Woman
Home For Christmas [ Manhattan Records / CD - released 16/Nov/2012 ] The internationally-acclaimed Irish all-female singing sensation perform magical Christmas songs. Featuring Australia's beloved Marina Prior on Auld Lang Syne. |
TRADITIONAL / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Carols From King's College, Cambridge Choir of King's College, Cambridge [ Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] A wonderful collection of 15 of the favourite and most popular carols for the Christmas season, performed by the world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (recorded in December, 1999) Claron McFadden, sop, Bernarda Fink, alto, Christoph Genz, tenor, Dietrich Henschel, bass / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloist, Eliot Gardiner [ EuroArts DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach paintings, the Monteverdi Choir and the English... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Leipziger Weihnachtskantaten [Christmas Cantatas from Leipzig] / Magnificat in E flat Carolyn Sampson, Mark Padmore, Ingeborg Danz, Peter Kooy, etc / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 6/Jan/2008 ] The Christmas cantatas have in common the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point, and their intimate performing forces. In Bach's output they constitute a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas. |
ANONYMOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Canto Noel - Polyphonic Christmas hymns from the Middle Ages Coro de Monjes de la Abadía de Santo, Domingo de Silos [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] This album brings together a remarkable collection of Christmas chants which were recorded by the choir of monks from the Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery. All of these chants belong to the sacred repertoire. Pilgrims to Santiago would hear and sing... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Dorothee Mields, Damien Guillon, Thomas Hobbs, Peter Kooij / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2014 ] "Some of the intimacy derives from the small forces...but it's mainly to do with the relaxed (though never sluggish) tempos...The solo team is outstanding." (BBC Music Magazine, Feb 2014) |
ANONYMOUS
Ecole de Notre Dame: Mass for Christmas Day Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum, relive Mass for Christmas Day as it was sung in the prestigious setting of the School of Notre Dame in paris, the cradle of western polyphony. |
GABRIELI / CIPRIANO de RORE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Venetian Christmas Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Archiv / CD - released 25/Nov/2001 ] "A very different Christmas disc that finds Paul McCreesh on homeground in a superb and majestic Venetian musical reconstruction." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001) |
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TRADITIONAL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Christmas with the Divas [4 CD set at a special price] Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Kiri te Kanawa, Renata Tebaldi [ Decca Records / 4 CD Box Set - released 28/Aug/2014 ] Four original Christmas albums starring legendary divas - four CDs at a special price, an ideal Christmas gift. |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors / My Christmas Kirsten Gunlogson (soprano) Ike Hawkersmith (treble) Todd Thomas (baritone) / Chicago Symphony Chorus / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Alastair Willis [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Naxos have done well to bring such a strong performance to the catalogue at budget price. It all adds up to a fine seasonal treat to be enjoyed with a cup of mulled wine and a mince pie." (MusicWeb Jan 2009) |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The New Collector's Edition Joan Rodgers, William Shimmell, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Richard Hickox, Helen Watts, Janet Baker, Robert Tear, etc [ Warner Classics / 30 CD Box Set - released 30/Sep/2022 ] This edition presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All your favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs. |
TRADITIONAL
A Christmas Present from Polyphony Polyphony Stehpen Layton (conductor) with City of London Sinfonia [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] 'Stephen Layton directs the performances and deserves major credit for the very high standards evident on this compilation' (BBC Music Magazine) |
TRADITIONAL
Medieval Christmas Pro Cantione Antiqua / Mark Brown, with English Medieval Wind Ensemble [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "A spicy Christmas feast, from a time when classic and folk music mixed. There was little difference in the popular music of the church or the tavern! Often more Chaucer than Christian… A lively record to sit back and enjoy! The attraction of the... |
TRADITIONAL
Stille Nacht - German Christmas Carols RIAS Kammerchor / Uwe Gronostay [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "a very classy alternative to Carols from Kings." The Independent on Sunday |
TRADITIONAL
Puer Natus Est: Tudor Music for Advent & Christmas Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "I can only urge you to acquire this exceptionally fine disc and let the radiance of the music and the performances illuminate your Christmas." Recording of the Month MusicWeb Dec 2010 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Christmas Story Theatre of Voices / Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] Inspired by the much-loved service of 'Nine Lessons and Carols' given every Christmas Eve, this recording presents the Nativity story told through plainchant, motets, 17th Century dialogues and traditional folk carols. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts Oratorium) Werner Gura, Klaus Hager, Dorothea Roschmann, Andreas Scholl / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2006 ] "A handsome package matched by a lively interpretation" (BBC Music) |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music for Advent and Christmas Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2003 ] What better way to encapsulate the spirit of Christmas than with works of such devotional beauty, all sung with Westminster Cathedral Choir's customary finesse and atmospheric reverence |
TRADITIONAL
Songs Of Joy & Peace Yo-Yo Ma (cello) & friends, including Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyer, Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Chris Botti, etc [ Sony Classical / CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] "joy can't exist in our world without the comfort of peace. As we all draw closer and closer together in this world, nothing is more important." Yo-Yo Ma |
