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Cantus Angelicus / Gluck; Bach; Gounod; Schubert / Risto Joost, Tallinn Sinfonietta / Heldur Harry Polda, boy soprano

1 CD / Estonian Record Products / 2012-11-13

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice; Giulio Caccini: Ave Maria; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Frédéric Chopin: Etude for piano no 3 in E major, Op. ...
Performers: Polda, Heldur Harry
Conductors: Joost, Risto
Ensemble: ; Tallinn Sinfonietta

Recording information: St Jacob's Church (Viimisi, Estonia) (10/14/2011-10/16/2011)....continue...

Waltzing at Christmas & New Year

3 CD / Delta (UK) / 2012-11-06

Works: Franz Gruber: Silent Night; André Rieu: The First Nowell / Il est né, le divin enfant / Ding Dong! Merrily on High, medley for violin & salo; Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen / Gloria in exc...
Performers: Rieu, Andre
Conductors: Francek, Joseph; Neukamp, Norbert

The Christmas Collection: Choral and Orchestral Classics

2 CD / EMI Distribution (USA) / 2011-10-04

Works: Christmas Traditional: Born Today, Christmas medley for chorus & orchestra; Rejoice, Christmas medley for chorus & orchestra; A Gift from God, Christmas medley for chorus & orchestra; Miraculous Nigh...

This two-disc set combines two earlier Christmas releases from Sparrow Records, 1990's The Majesty and Glory of Christmas, produced by Billy Ray Hearn and Tom Fettke, and 1998's The Beauty of Christma...continue...

A Kaleidoscope / Peter Mattei

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-03-10

Works: Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (chamber version); Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night"); Christmas song; Peter Cornelius: Die drei Kön...
Performers: Alin, Folke; Astrand, Anders; Canning, Andrew; Derwinger, Love; Forsberg, Bengt; Gustafsson, Carl-Lennart; Johansson, Per; Lidstrom, Lars-Erik; Mattei, Peter [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Nordin, Lena; Pont...
Conductors: Alin, Cecilia Rydinger; Sund, Robert; Paavo, Järvi; Graden, Gary
Ensemble: ; Allmänna Sången ; Kroumata Percussion Ensemble; Uppsala Musikklasser

With his magnificent voice and magnetic stage personality, the Swedish baritone Peter Mattei delights audiences at the Metropolitan in New York, La Scala in Milan,...continue...

The Top 20 Christmas Carols

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2010-12-07

Works: Franz Gruber: Silent Night; Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night"); Felix Mendelssohn: Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"; John ...
Performers: Blades, James; Bradley, Jonathan; Cleobury, Stephen [Organ/Conductor]; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Drury, David; Kenny, Yvonne; Lang, Genevieve; McMahon, Paul; Miller, David [Piano]; Riley, Catherin...
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen; Sexton, Timothy; Willcocks, David; Leighton-Jones, Michael; Walker, Antony; Weymark, Brett; Stanhope, David; Guest, George; Dyer, Paul

Christmas Meditation / Concertos, Airs and Sacred Works from Baroque & Classical times [5 CDs]

5 CD / Capriccio / 2010-11-16

Works: Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Christmas Traditional: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, carol (Blest Mary Wanders through the Thorn); Süsser die Glocken nie klingen, carol (Austrian); Heil'ge Nacht auf...
Performers: Achim, Erzsébet; Bálint, János; Bernstein, Walter Heinz; Buchner, Roland; Cordier, David; Dicke, Peter; Eisenberg, Matthias; Friedrich, Reinhold [Trumpet]; Glaetzner, Burkhard; H...
Conductors: Flämig, Martin; Erxleben, Michael; Bohme, Frank; Marschik, Peter; Tarr, Edward H. [Trumpet]; ; Rotzsch, Hans-Joachim; Rolla, János [Violin]; Winschermann, Helmut; Eschenburg, Hartwig; B...
Ensemble: ; Budapest Strings; Capella Savaria; Cappella Coloniensis; Concerto Köln ; Das kleine Konzert; Dresden Baroque Soloists; German Bach Soloists; Hr-Brass; New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig; Phil...

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Christmas In The Park / King's Singer; King's College Choir; Kathleen Battle, et al.

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-11-09

Works: Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland; Christmas Traditional: Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night"); The Gloucester Wassail Song ("Wassail! wassail all over the town!"), carol; Ding Dong! Merrily on High (F...
Performers: Baker, Chet [Trumpet/Vocals/Composer]; Battle, Kathleen; Case, John Carol; Jackson, Javon; Kenton, Stan; Willcocks, David, Sir [Choral Conductor]
Conductors: Willcocks, David; Jaffee, Michael; Litton, James; Temirkanov, Yuri; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: ; Choir of King's College Cambridge; Waverly Consort

During the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season we often lose track of the meaning of Christmas. Whether it is the excitement of the...continue...

Happy Birthday Jesus!

1 CD / Sacral Import / 2010-07-27

Works: John Leavitt: Dashing Through the Snow (A Jingle Bell Spectacular), for chorus, bells & piano; Christmas Traditional: Süsser die Glocken nie klingen, carol (Austrian); Leise rieselt der Schnee, ...
Performers: Ascher, Christian; Ascher, Cornelia; D'A Chor; PreiB, Thomas
Conductors: PreiB, Thomas

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Recording information: Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg (07/2006)....continue...

Cantique de Noël - Beautiful Songs of Christmas / Michael Calmès, John Finney

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-11-01

Works: Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night"); Christmas Traditional: This is the truth sent from above (English); Quelle est cette odeur agr&...
Performers: Calmès, Michael [Tenor Vocal]; DiPerna, Gary; Finney, John; Hudde, Hermann

With a voice praised as "beautiful" -; "thrilling" -; and "rich" -; tenor Michael CalmEs has achieved a distinguished record of performances in concerts, recitals,...continue...
Recording information: Blink Music Studios, Cambridge, MA (07/2008-08/2008)....continue...

Christmas in the Valleys

1 CD / Delta (UK) / 2009-10-13

Works: Christmas Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (English); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English); Deck the Halls (Welsh); Away in a Manger; The First Nowell (English); Ding Dong! Merrily on High (Fren...
Performers: Reese, Arthur

2009 holiday collection of digitally remastered yuletide recordings. Christmas In The Valleys features 20 tracks including cuts from the Rhos Orpheus Male Choir, the Cwmbach...continue...

Sing Noel!! / The Washington Chorus

1 CD / Gothic Records / 2009-01-01

Works: Christmas Traditional: Personent hodie (On this day Earth shall ring) (Piae Cantiones); Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); Christmas Night (French); Coventry Carol (2); Unto Us Is Born A Son (Puer ...
Performers: Doherty, Peter; Forest, Michael; Lin, Susan Vaules; Neil, William [Organ]

Traditional Christmas carols on the release include 'O Holy Night', 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing', and other contemporary arrangements. A 2000 Grammy Award Winner, The...continue...

A Song of Christmas / Pittsburgh Symphony Brass

1 CD / Four Worlds Media / 2008-11-18

Works: Katherine K. Davis: The Little Drummer Boy "Carol of the Drum"; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chréti...
Performers: Fire, Tami; Lukowicz, Tom

Four Winds Entertainment is proud to present the long awaited recording, A Song of Christmas, by America's premiere brass ensemble Pittsburgh Symphony Brass, led by...continue...
Personnel: Tami Fire (mezzo soprano).

Recording information: East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA....continue...

Pavarotti - The Studio Albums

12 CD / Decca / 2007-11-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; I due Foscari; Un ballo in maschera; Macbeth; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Il Duca d'Alba; La Favorita; Dom Sébas...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baillie, Peter; Bartoli, Alberto; Beck, Jeff; Bonaviri, Daniele; Brown, Kameron; Bunger, Reid; Centonze, Michele; Cortesi, Manuela "Manu"; Fabbri, Giorgio "Cartolo"; Flossman, Gilels; ...
Conductors: Downes, Edward; Rescigno, Nicola; Magiera, Leone; Bonynge, Richard; Karajan, Herbert von; Mehta, Zubin; Adler, Kurt Herbert; Chiaramello, Giancarlo; Guadagno, Anton; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Chailly, ...

'The Studio Albums' comprise the twelve original studio albums Luciano Pavarotti recorded during the course of his unparalleled career spanning four decades from the earliest...continue...

La Diva [Universal]

1 CD / Universal Classics Import / 2007-10-23

Works: Francesco Sartori: Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò), song; Lucio Dalla: Caruso; Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Ennio Morricone: Il mercenario; Eduardo di Capua: O sole mio; Joaquín Rodrig...
Performers: Banbury, James; Jenkins, Katherine; McCapra, Fiona; Meirion, Rhys; Parricelli, John
Conductors: Banbury, James; Hayward, William

At just 24 years of age Katherine Jenkins is a household star in the UK. The tracks on this record are a collection of her...continue...
Personnel: Katherine Jenkins (vocals); Rhys Meirion (vocals); John Parricelli (guitar); Fiona McCapra (violin); James Banbury (keyboards, percussion).

Recording information: Trinity College, Ca...continue...

The Carols Album / Huddersfield Choral Society, et al

1 CD / Signum UK / 2007-10-06

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"; Christmas Traditional: Gaudete, Christus est natus; Gabriel's Message (Basque); O Little Town of Bethlehem; Coventry Carol (2); Quelle es...
Performers: Battiwalla, Darius

The magnificent voices of the Huddersfield Choral Society celebrate the Christmas Season with heart-warming arrangements of our favorite carols. Undoubtedly the hardiest annual of the...continue...

Impressions of Christmas - Musical Footsteps in the Snow

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2006-08-01

Works: Bob Chilcott: The Time of Snow, for chorus & piano; Claude Debussy: Préludes, Book 1; John Goss: See Amid the Winter's Snow, for chorus; Hector Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25; Pyotr Il'y...
Performers: Boden, Jon; Giles, Ian; Popov, Pavel; Smith, Susan Graham; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara
Conductors: Jackson, Don; Gönnenwein, Wolfgang; Gorkovenko, Stanislav

A musical impression of Christmas and the time of snow with contributions from choirs, orchestras, children, instrumentalists and carol singers...continue...

The Christmas Album / Sumi Jo

1 CD / Erato (USA) Import / 2001-09-18

Works: Christmas Traditional: I Wonder As I Wander (American); Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Alessandro Scarlatti: Oh di Betlemme altera povertà, chamber cantata for soprano & s...
Performers: Bach, Gottfried; Jo, Sumi; Kurosaki, Hiro
Conductors: Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: Cappella Coloniensis

Recording information: Studio Stolberger Straáe, Cologne, Germany (10/04/1999-10/09/1999).

Celebrated soprano Sumi Jo delivers a warm and bright collection of mostly lesser-known religio...continue...

Aftonpsalm Och Julesang

1 CD / Proprius / 2000-01-01

Works: Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night"); Christmas Traditional: Dejlig er jorden, carol (Danish) (from the German melody "Schönster...
Performers: Adolf Fredrik Bach Choir; Hagegård, Håkan; Ohrwall, Anders
Conductors: Ohrwall, Anders

Trumpet Adagio / Jouko Harjanne, Markku Hietaharju

1 CD / Finlandia Import / 1996-01-09

Works: Franz Schubert: Ave Maria; Nacht und Träume (Heil'ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder!"), song for voice & piano, D. 827 (Op. 43/2); Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio for Organ and Strings in G minor; Johann Seba...
Performers: Harjanne, Jouko; Hietaharju, Markku