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On Christmas Night / works by Rutter, Burton, Mathias, Darke and Poston

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2011-10-25

Works: John Rutter: What sweeter music; Christmas Traditional: Noël nouvelet, carol (French); Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); I Saw Three Ships, carol; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English); ...
Performers: Challenger, John [Organ]; Clapham, Geoffrey; Gregory, Julian; James, Freddie [Organist]; Leslie, Huw; Macdonald, Basil; Neill, Henry
Conductors: Nethsingha, Andrew
Ensemble: St John's College Choir cambridge

A joyous celebration of music for the festive season! This disc was recorded in the College Chapel in full surround-sound, and recreates to a spectacular...continue...
Recording information: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, England (01/14/2011-01/16/2011)....continue...

Traditional & Modern Carols / Higginbottom - New College Oxford Choir

1 CD / Regis Records / 2011-03-22

Works: Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; William Byrd: Gradualia, Volume 2; Christmas Traditional: Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night"); The Holly ...
Conductors: Higginbottom, Edward

Welcome Yule

1 CD / Saydisc / 2011-01-11

Works: John Joubert: Welcome Yule!, for chorus, Op. 27; There Is No Rose, for chorus, Op. 14; Benjamin Britten: Hymn to the Virgin; Anton Bruckner: Virga Jesse, gradual for chorus in E minor, WAB 52; Herber...
Performers: Bacon, Richard [Baritone vocals]
Conductors: Jenkins, Glyn

Recording information: St. George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol (01/1988)....continue...

Plum Pudding: Traditional carols for Christmas / Felicity Lott, soprano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2010-11-16

Works: Christmas Traditional: Wassail Song ("Here We Come a-Wassailing"), carol (a.k.a. "Here We Come a-Caroling"); I Sing of a Maiden, carol (English); Esta noche nace un Niño (Spanish); The Holly and...
Performers: Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Broadbent, Peter
Ensemble: Joyful Company of Singers

Dame Felicity Lott and the Joyful Company of Singers serve up rich Christmas fayre with 'Plum Pudding', well-spiced with favourite carols and readings by actor...continue...
Recording information: Champs Hill, West Sussex, England (11/30/2002)....continue...

Once were Christmas Angels - The Pure Sound of Boy Trebles

1 CD / Griffin Records / 2010-06-08

Works: Christmas Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (English); Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep; Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); Quem pastores laudavere (Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410); O Little Town of Bethle...
Performers: Bowyer, Jeremy; Cooper, Ian [Mastering]; Criswell, Michael; Davey, Peter; Dutton, Paul; Elias, David; Harvey, Christopher; Ludford-Thomas, Daniel; Lyle, James; Mace, Michael; Pugh, Owen; Rees-William...

Something different & wonderfully enjoyable! The new Boy Trebles compilation awaited by collectors from the 25-year period covered by Abbey Label. It is much more...continue...

Britten: Ceremony of Carols / Kelly, Choir of New College Oxford

1 CD / CRD Records / 2009-05-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28; Herbert Howells: Long, long ago; Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep; What sweeter music can we bring, for chorus; Gustav Holst: Old English Caro...
Performers: Bowes, Tim; Cave, Philip; Finnis, Jerome; Hallchurch, Philip; Kelly, Frances [Harp]; Lochmann, Daniel; McLusky, Fergus; Saunderson, Duncan; Witcomb, Nicholas

I Sing the Birth / New York Polyphony

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Andrew Smith: Veni Redemptor gentium, for vocal ensemble; Nunc dimittis, for vocal ensemble; Plainchant: Hodie Christus Natus Est (Mode 1); Ave Maria, gratia plena, tractus; Ecce advenit dominator Do...
Performers: Baber, Elizabeth; Cunningham, Ruth

Sweet Was the Song: English Music for Christmas

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2009-03-10

Works: Christmas Traditional: There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (English); I Wonder As I Wander (American); Coventry Carol (2); Herbert Howells: Carol-Anthems (3) for Chorus; Here is the little door; Benjamin...

Make We Joy - Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

1 CD / Quilisma (Loft) / 2009-01-01

Works: Christmas Traditional: Of the Father's heart begotten (A Christmas Procession); This is the truth sent from above (English); Work(s); Noël nouvelet, carol (French); Sussex Carol ("On Christmas N...
Performers: Arthur, Malcolm; Carey, Colm; Cooper, Julie; Phillips, Tom [Zamir Chorale]; Poole, Elizabeth; Preston-Dunlop, Emma; Thomas, Elin Manahan; Vocal], Andrew Kennedy [Tenor

Noël nouvelet - Mendelssohn, Rutter, Leighton, Lauridsen, Hakim, etc / Backhouse, Filsell, Vasari Singers

1 CD / Guild / 2008-10-14

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Anthems (6), Op. 79; Michael Head: The Little Road to Bethlehem; Bob Chilcott: Shepherd's Carol; Christmas Traditional: Quem pastores laudavere (Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410); Ding ...
Performers: Balzan, Nicola; Filsell, Jeremy [Keyboard]; McWilliams, Fiona; Stansfield, Jess; Wood, Matthew
Conductors: Backhouse, Jeremy
Ensemble: Vasari Singers

The title of this recording translates as new, novel or novelty, so we have a Christmas disc that is traditional but with a fresh, modern...continue...

Serenity: Beautiful Choral Music [Box Set]

5 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2008-07-29

Works: Gregorio Allegri: Miserere; Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria... virgo serena, motet for 4 parts; William Byrd: Ave verum corpus; Robert Parsons: Ave Maria; Guillaume Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores, isorhythmi...
Performers: Black, Richard; Bone, Corin; Costa, Neal Peres da; Donnelly, Mark; Drury, David; Duck-Chong, Jenny; Everingham, Craig; Fraser, Anna; Greco, David; Harvey, Ray; Lang, Genevieve; Macliver, Sara; McMaho...
Conductors: Walker, Antony; Weymark, Brett; Stanhope, Paul
Ensemble: ; Sirius String Quartet

With reviews describing cantillation as 'heaven on a stick' and 'an elegant and highly responsive group of singers' you cannot go past this ultimate collection...continue...

Best 100 Carols

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2007-11-06

Works: Christmas Traditional: The First Nowell (English); Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen (Piae cantiones); O Little Town of Bethlehem; Personent hodie (On this day Earth shall ring) (Piae Cantiones); O...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Bell, David [Organ]; Bickenbach, Christfried; Blandford, Jeremy; Byram-Wigfield, Timothy [Organ]; Charlesworth, Stephen; Chilcott, Bob; Clarvis, Paul;...
Conductors: Ledger, Philip, Sir; Willcocks, David; Rutter, John; Parrott, Andrew; Hickox, Richard; Ericson, Eric; Schmidt-Gaden, Gerhard; Alexander, Geoffrey; Tunick, Jonathan; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Hughes, O...
Ensemble: ; Abbey Road Ensemble; Taverner Choir, Consort & Players

2007 release in the Best Classics 100 series, 100 Best Carols is the perfect Christmas release-- six CDs of the most famous carols, all time...continue...

Sweet Music of Christmas / Morrow, et al

1 CD / Koch International / 2007-10-23

Works: Christmas Traditional: Il est né, le divin enfant (French); Of the Father's heart begotten (A Christmas Procession); O come, o come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), carol; I Wonder As I Wande...
Performers: Holt, Lisa Roane; Koch, Laura; Wiles, John; Young, Kaycee
Conductors: Morrow, James
Ensemble: University of Texas Chamber Singers

The University of Texas Chamber Singers have been one of the premiere North American collegiate choral ensembles for nearly half a century, having been organized...continue...

The Christmas Collection

3 CD / Coro / 2007-09-04

Works: William Walton: Make we joy now in this Fest, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols no 1); Kenneth Leighton: Carols (3), Op. 25; Peter Racine Fricker: A Babe Is Born; Edmund Rubbra: The Virg...
Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Burrows, Peter; Carwood, Andrew; Clarke, Fiona; Crabtree, Libby; Dean, Ruth; Dunkley, Sally; Forbes, Patricia; Hodges, Christopher; Hoffnung, Benedict; Jeffrey...
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: ; The Sixteen (Choir)

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Performed with every virtue and every grace including fresh, firm tone, uncanny precision and the finest possible control of grades and shades of volume.
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The Sixteen Edition - Hodie / Christophers, The Sixteen

1 CD / Coro / 2006-02-27

Works: William Walton: Make we joy now in this Fest, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols no 1); Kenneth Leighton: Carols (3), Op. 25; Peter Racine Fricker: A Babe Is Born; Edmund Rubbra: The Virg...
Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Crabtree, Libby; Dean, Ruth; Dunkley, Sally; Forbes, Patricia; Hoffnung, Benedict; Jeffrey, Robin; Jenkin, Nicola [Soprano Vocals]; Lockhart, William; MacKenzi...
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: The Sixteen (Choir)

"Outstanding, irrespective of the season." -Gramophone...continue...

O magnum misterium - Twentieth-Century Carols / Polyphony

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-11-08

Works: Sarum Chant: O radix Iesse; O magnum misterium; Ave Maria; Hodie Christus natus est; Puer natus est nobis; Reges Tharsis; Verbum caro factum est; Peter Wishart: Carols (3), Op. 17; Herbert Howells: C...
Conductors: Layton, Stephen
Ensemble: Polyphony

'Polyphony is superb ... the most completely recommendable new issue for Christmas I've found so far' (The Independent on Sunday)

'A gloriously sung collection ... captures...continue...

Leighton: Cathedral Music / Scott, St Paul's Cathedral Choir

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-03-08

Works: Kenneth Leighton: Te Deum Laudamus ("St. Cecilia"); Missa Brevis for chorus, Op 50; Carols (3), Op. 25; Crucifixus Pro Nobis for tenor, chorus & organ, Op. 38; Second Service for chorus & organ, Op 6...
Performers: Beavan, Nigel; Colwell, Thomas; Hopkins, Jamie; Jones, Timothy; Lucas, Andrew; Mackie, Neil
Conductors: Music], John Scott [Choral

"Leighton at his most moving. St. Paul's choir brings glowingly alive both the strength and the tenderness of this music. I can enthusiastically recommend this...continue...

Our Dancing Day / The Memphis Boy Choir & Chamber Choir

1 CD / Pro Organo / 2004-09-01

Works: Michael Praetorius: Psallite unigenito; Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; Edgar Pettman: A Carol of Adoration, for chorus; John Rutter: Shepherd's Pipe Carol; Benjamin Britten:...
Performers: Austin, Libby; Compton, William; Guest, George; Happ, Alexander; Kreitner, Mona; Krieger, William; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Lensch, Kristin; Memphis Boychoir; Nelson, Randall; Peyronnin, Addie; Simmons, ...
Conductors: Ayer, John
Ensemble: ; Memphis Brass Ensemble

Personnel: Kristin Lensch (soprano, organ); Mona Kreitner, Addie Peyronnin, Libby Austin, Deborah Smith, Betty Page (soprano); William Compton, James Peebles, Adrian Killebrew, James Brinson, Gannon W...continue...

O Magnum Mysterium / Lydon, Smith, Choir of Lincoln College

1 CD / Guild / 2001-10-01

Works: Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; Lennox Berkeley: I Sing of a Maiden, for chorus; Anton Bruckner: Virga Jesse, gradual for chorus in E minor, WAB 52; Herbert Howells: Carol-An...
Performers: Smith, Philip
Conductors: Eastwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Lincoln College Choir Oxford

Evening Watch - Finzi, Holst, etc / Queen's College Choir

1 CD / Guild / 1999-03-01

Works: Kenneth Leighton: Second Service for chorus & organ, Op 62; Solus ad victimam; Carols (3), Op. 25; Gustav Holst: Psalm CXLVIII (Lord, Who hast made us); Nunc Dimittis, for chorus, H. 127; Motets (2),...