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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
In Terra Pax - A Christmas Anthology Various Artists [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] |
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NOEL CHRISTMAS
Noel Christmas: evergreens Various artists including the RIAS Kammerchor, Concerto Vocale, Les Arts Florissants & La Chapelle Royale [ Harmonia Mundi Christmas Edition / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] A beautiful selection of Christmas pieces from the Harmonia Mundi label. |
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Vienna Boys Choir / Marschik
Various: Christmas With The Vienna Boys Choir [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas Voces8 [ Signum / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] The international award-winning octet, VOCES8, has established itself at the forefront of British a cappella. Performing a repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to unique Jazz and Pop arrangements, the group has been praised for stunning... |
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HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Schütz: The Christmas story & other works Yale Schola Cantorum / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Schütz's 'Christmas story' is an absolute delight from beginning to end, its charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men completely belying the composer's old age and constrained circumstances. Here it's the jubilant climax to a programme of... |
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TRADITIONAL
Christmas with the Academy Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] The story of the birth of Jesus more than two thousand years ago has been the source of inspiration for countless poets and musicians, as well as practitioners of other forms of art. The infant, born of a virgin in a lowly cattle shed, because there... |
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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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J.S. BACH
Sacred Works: Masses BWV 232-236 / Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Soloists / Collegium Vocale, Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Virgin Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "the four Lutheran Masses have been absurdly undervalued because they were largely revamped from earlier cantatas. But who could resist the singing of Gerard Lesne, the invigorating Kyrie of the F major Mass, the G major's tenor aria with oboe... |
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HOLST / MENDELSSOHN / TRADITIONAL
Christmas With Canterbury Cathedral Girls' Choir Canterbury Cathedral Girls' Choir [ Decca / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] This is the debut album from the first ever girls' choir at historic Canterbury Cathedral. This album marks the first time that girls have been allowed to sing in an official capacity over the 1,400 year history of Canterbury Cathedral |
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The Carpenters
Christmas Collection [ A & M / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] How about snowy days and Mondays? The soft, soothing sounds of Karen and Richard Carpenter are perfectly suited to a white Christmas with a crackling fire; here are their Christmas Portrait ('78) and An Old Fashioned Christmas ('84) LPs, together in... |
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J.S. BACH
A Bach Christmas: Magnificat, BWV 243a / Cantata: Christen, atzet diesen Tag / etc Catherine Bott & Elizabeth Scholl (sopranos) Christopher Robson (countertenor) Paul Agnew & Andrew King (tenors) / New London Consort / Philip Pickett [ ABC Philips Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "Marvellous life-enhancing music ... can be enjoyed at any time of the year, not just at Christmas" (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
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Cerys Matthews
Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas / Poems & Tiger Eggs [ Marvels of the Universe / 2 CD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] It was a Christmas in South Carolina that reawakened Cerys' love for Thomas and inspired her to mark his centenary with her most ambitious project yet - setting his words to music. Includes the whole of' A Child's Christmas in Wales' and poems... |
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TRADITIONAL
Christmas at Westminster Abbey Choir of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston, with Christopher Herrick, organ [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 10/Dec/2017 ] "The Choir of Westminster Abbey is on its toes in a lively mixture of old and new, familiar and less so." Gramophone |
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas [ Capital / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] O Holy Night; Joy to the World; We Three Kings; Silent Night; O Come All Ye Faithful, and Away in a Manger join Abide with Me; the Old Rugged Cross; in the Garden, and more enchanting Ella. 27 tracks! |
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Frank Sinatra
Ultimate Christmas [ Capitol / Universal / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] Ultimate Christmas is the essential new Frank Sinatra holiday collection, showcasing 20 classics from Sinatra's Capitol and Reprise catalogs such as 'White Christmas,' 'Silent Night,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.' |
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Friar Allessandro
Voice Of Joy (UK / International Version) [ Decca Records / CD - released 29/Nov/2013 ] Friar Alessandro has recorded an album of Christmas Carols and sacred arias, or as he describes it, an album of Joy. Since his first album was released in 2012, Alessandro has captured the hearts of people around the world with his beautiful voice... |
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Il Volo
Buon Natale: The Christmas Album [ Interscope / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] BUON NATALE is classical crossover trio Il Volo's new Christmas album. |
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TRADITIONAL
Christmas at King's - 35 Favourite Carols & Fantasia on Christmas Carols King's College Choir, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] 35 seasonal favourites to put you in the Christmas mood, plus Vaughan Williams' 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols' |
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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. |
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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... |