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TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS
Christmas at King's College Cambridge King's College Choir, Cambridge / David Willcocks [ ALTO / CD - released 15/Nov/2012 ] 'The number of boy choristers was fixed at 16 by King Henry in 1453 and it is 16 still. While originally there were six lay clerks, there are now 12 choral scholars, who are undergraduates of the college studying for degrees. (The Director) therefore... |
The King's Singers
Christmas Carols with The King's Singers [ Signum / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] This brand new Christmas album from The King's Singers features 25 tracks covering everything from contemporary choral gems and folk songs through to well-loved carols. Dotted throughout the album are several of the most famous English church carols,... |
TRADITIONAL
Angels: Christmas With The Great Sopranos Leontyne Price, Renee Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Angela Gheorghiu, etc [ Decca Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] A Christmas evening with the greatest of sopranos including Barbara Bonney, Renee Fleming, Leontyne Price & Joan Sutherland. |
Leontyne Price, Vienna Philharmonic Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
Songs For Christmas (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 6/Nov/2020 ] Leontyne Price's heavenly soprano lights up 13 Christmas favorites on this wonderful 1961 album recorded in Vienna, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. On this vinyl "Silent Night", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "O Tannenbaum", "Ave Maria", "O Holy... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sacred Treasures of Christmas The London Oratory Schola Cantorum / Charles Cole [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] A celebration of Christmas from the Nativity through to Candlemas, in music from across sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance polyphony at its finest. |
SCHUTZ / PURCELL / GABRIELI / MONTEVERDI / HASSLER / etc
Glad Tidings: A Baroque Christmas London String Players / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / Camden Wind Ensemble / Roger Norrington [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Christmas Concert With Robert Shaw Louise Seidel (soprano), Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw [ Vox Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] |
TRADITIONAL
Christmas Carols From Oxford Magdalen College Choir, John Harper, conductor [ Alto / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "..Magdalen College Oxford played an important part in the Victorian revival of the celebration of Christmas and especially of carol singing.. key figure.. J R Bloxam, Fellow of Magdalen.. first held a musical entertainment for Magdalen choristers.. |
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Mantovani & His Orchestra
Classical Encores & Christmas [ Vocalion / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2010 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music For The Queen Of Heaven: Contemporary Marian Motets The Marian Consort [ Delphian / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] The Marian Consort originally made its name with the music of the Renaissance. But the group has also worked regularly with living composers for a number of years. This programme of contemporary Marian anthems - many of them commissioned by the... |
GABRIELI / BASSANO / MONTEVERDI
Christmas In Venice Monteverdi Choir / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / John Eliot Gardiner [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] Jean-Baptiste Duval of the Venetian Republic's French Embassy records that on Christmas Eve 1607, Midnight Mass in St. Mark's was celebrated by the light of more than one thousand candles, sixty huge torches and silver lamps. He counted no less than... |
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Tabernacle Christmas [ Telarc / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Oct/2001 ] What better way to celebrate Christmas than with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? This disc, a 2000 Telarc release, presents that glorious ensemble with the Orchestra at Temple Square conducted by Craig Jessop in a real holiday treat. This is truly a... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas Spectacular [includes John Rutter - Gloria] Musica Sacra conducted by Indra Hughes [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ] "What sets this stunning CD apart..is that it avoids the often over-reverberant, stained-glass window sound-world of distant, ethereal Cathedral organs, boys and men choir and liturgical carol services." Martin Setchell writing in ORGANZ |
Nat King Cole
The Christmas Song [ Capitol / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] A new reissue of the original 1962 collection of Christmas classics from Nat King Cole, featuring five bonus tracks including "The Christmas Song" duet with Natalie Cole. |
Neil Diamond
The Classic Christmas Album [ Capitol / CD - released 2/Oct/2015 ] 2013 holiday collection from one of the most beloved names in the music business. Deck the halls, wrap those gifts, jingle those bells and usher in the holidays with this platter of joyful Christmas melodies that will make your season even brighter. |
BYRD / PEACOCK / WILLIAMS / WEIR / TALLIS
The Mystery of Christmas Ora Singers, Suzi Digby (director) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] The story of Christ's birth has prompted generations of composers to expressions of joy and mystical reflection. Our selection of carols for this album unveils a whole treasure chest of offerings, some familiar, some less so, all giving voice to... |
MACDONALD / TAVENER / RAVEL etc
The Darkest Midnight: Songs of Winter and Christmas Papagena [ Somm Recordings / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] The all-female vocal ensemble Papagena makes its debut on SOMM Recordings with The Darkest Midnight, a sublime collection of songs for winter from the Middle Ages to the modern era embracing the secular and the sacred. Described as "a stunning... |
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Pavarotti/Domingo/Carreras
Three Tenors Christmas (+Dvd) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Nov/2004 ] |
ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Complete Edition Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord), Musica Amphion [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 15/Nov/2010 ] "The Concerti grossi, Op. 6 are full of verve here; there's a real sense of enjoyment in the playing and the same enthusiasm is to be found throughout. At its most zestful the set is excellent, and the disappointments are few." Penguin Guide |
Placido Domingo, Sissel Kyrkjebo, Charles Aznavour / Vienna Symphony
Christmas In Vienna III [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Oct/1995 ] Christmas in Vienna III is a 1995 Christmas album released by Spanish operatic tenor Plácido Domingo, French chanson and pop music star Charles Aznavour, and Norwegian crossover soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø |
