Christmas / Chanukkah CDs
Christmas / Chanukkah CDs
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Handel: Messiah (Choruses)
Gabriel's Message - One Thousand Years Of Carols
Christmas Wonderland / Vänskä, Laulupuu Choir, Lahti So
Includes work(s) by Jean Sibelius, various composers. Ensembles: Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Laulupuu Choir Lahti. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
Christmas Piano Music / Eteri Andjaparidze
Christmas Music Of The Bohemian Baroque / Klikar, Et Al
Christmas Carols From Tewkesbury Abbey / Andrew Sackett
Christmas Carols / Donald Hunt, Worcester Cathedral Choir
Caldara: Christmas Cantata, Etc / Mallon, Aradia Baroque
Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols & Friday Afternoon / Corp, New London Children's Choir
Berlioz: L'enfance Du Christ
A Winter Solstice with Helicon / Norman, Kolodner, Bullock
Includes christmas carol(s) by various composers. Ensemble: Helicon. Soloists: Chris Norman, Ken Kolodner, Robin Bullock.
A Roman Christmas / Müller-brühl, Schuster, Schilli, Et Al
The melting beauty of Arcangelo Corelli's justifiably famous "Pastorale" movement from his Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8, seems to have suggested the idea for this very appealing recording of Italian Baroque music. The explicit pastoral Christmas theme of both the Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Cantata pastorale' invites the listener to hear the trumpet featured in Alessandro Stradella's Sonata as a seraphic herald and the oboe featured in the concertos of Alessandro Marcello and Tomaso Albinoni as a shepherd's adoration. Under Helmut Mueller-Bruehl's sensitive direction, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra gives precise and joy-filled readings of this festive music.
A Peter Warlock Christmas / Halsey, Allegri Singers
Christmas
This Is Christmas! / United States Air Force Symphony Orchestra
Includes work(s) by various composers. Ensemble: United States Army Air Force Symphony Orchestra.
The Songs of Solomon, Vol. 2 / Milnes, New York Baroque
Star Of Wonder

Festive music for the holiday season performed by an outstanding mixed chorus with pipe organ, harp, flute and bellringers! Recorded in the glorious cathedral acoustics of Saint Ignatius Church, San Francisco. "...Magical...the sound is impressively transparent." --Fanfare
Rimsky-korsakov: Christmas Eve, Etc / Golovschin, Moscow So
I'll Be Home For The Holidays / Eaken Piano Trio
Down Came An Angel - Music for Christmas / Jacqueline Schwab
Best known for her solo piano soundtracks to Ken Burns's PBS documentaries, Schwab has a quaint, inviting touch on the keyboard and a wonderful appreciation of Appalachian musical tradition. The result is a warm, familiar Christmas sound filled with nostalgia. Schwab's piano shimmers with a delightful tone, like a parlor with a fireplace on a snowy day.
Though the album is entirely instrumental, the traditional hymns, carols, and spirituals were meant to be sung. To that end, the producers have included lyric sheets, giving families the opportunity to gather around the piano once again to experience a Christmas tradition.
Christmas Star - Carols For The Christmas Season / Rutter, Cambridge Singers
REVIEW:
Christmas Star is an entertaining collection of familiar holiday tunes and carols, all professionally performed by the Cambridge Singers. This is good, straight a cappella holiday music and should satisfy fans of that style[.]
– All Music Guide (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
Christmas Celebration / United States Army Field Band & Soldiers' Chorus
Christmas Organ Music / Kevin Bowyer
Christmas Concerti / Krcek, Capella Istropolitana
Bright Day Star / Baltimore Consort
One of the finest Christmas recordings ever made, this 1994 production by the Baltimore Consort makes a welcome return (complete with a new cover) along with the revival of the Dorian label. Glowing with the high, clear soprano of Custer LaRue and brimming with versatile, virtuoso instrumental work by Mary Anne Ballard (viols, rebec), Mark Cudek (cittern, Baroque guitar, viols, bandora), Larry Lipkis (viol, recorder, gemshorn), Ronn McFarlane (lute), Chris Norman (wooden flutes, pennywhistle), and Webb Wiggins (organ), this program literally lives up to the promise of its title.
Many of these 20 tunes/carols/dances are among the most familiar Christmas standards--Ding dong merrily on high; Greensleeves; Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; In dulci jubilo; The Cherry Tree Carol; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day--presented in both vocal/instrumental and strictly instrumental arrangements. But whatever the tune, and however it's presented, the result is invariably engaging, artful, classy, and infinitely repeatable, which means it's perfect for multiple repetitions, whether at Christmas or any other time of year. Chris Norman's flute improvisation on "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen" is a classic, and Custer LaRue's rendition of the beautiful "Rorate coeli desuper" is not to be missed. In fact, that last instruction applies to this entire disc. If you're a Christmas music fan (and who isn't?) and you don't already own this CD, you know what you have to do.
-- David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
