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The Valley Sings - Choral Music by composers of the Hudson Valley / Works by Aaron Copland, James Fitzwilliam, Craig Fryer, John B Hedge

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2013-01-08

Works: George Tsontakis: Rossetti Nursery Rhymes (3) for chorus; Aaron Copland: Four Motets; Panaiotis: Arise, My Love, for chorus; James Fitzwilliam: A Rose of Sharon, for 2 sopranos, baritone & chorus; Cr...
Performers: Andrawis, Shanna; Boyer, Donald; Chenette, Jeanmarie Kern; Clifton, Elizabeth Leonard; Goldin, Amy; Hedges, John B.; Joscelyn, Amy; Knickerbocker, Glenn; Lundergan, Carol; Saunders, Michael; Wagner, ...
Conductors: Lundergan, Edward
Ensemble: ; A Consort of Singers

Kairos - A Consort of Singers offers a program of choral music by composers living and working in the Hudson Valley region of New York...continue...
Recording information: Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY (2012-06-12_2012-06-13_2012-)....continue...

A Christmas Festival - incl. Frosty the Snowman; Ukrainian Bell Carol; March of the Toys; O Holy Night et al. / Brass Band of Battle Creek

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2012-09-11

Works: Jeff Tyzik: A Christmas Overture; Johnny Marks: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; George Frederick Handel: Messiah; Steve Nelson: Frosty the Snowman; Mykola Leontovych: Carol of the Bells; Sam Pilafian...
Performers: Frost, Mark; Gordon, Wycliffe; Mead, Steven; Richardson, Rex
Conductors: Evans, Richard; Ioannides, Sarah; Gould, Mark [Trumpet]; Sedatole, Kevin
Ensemble: Brass Band of Battle Creek

Recording information: Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, MI....continue...

Christmas with the Pro Arte Singers / works by John Joubert, H.J. Gauntlett, Pierre Villette, et al.

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2011-10-11

Works: John Joubert: There Is No Rose, for chorus, Op. 14; Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; Pierre Villette: O magnum mysterium, Op 53; Hymne à la Vierge, Op 24; Johann Christ...
Performers: Hezewijk, Olav Van; Krause, Joan
Conductors: Sjögren, Arthur
Ensemble: Pro Arte Singers

For more than 25 years, the Pro Arte singers have been recognized as an outstanding chamber chorus. This recording of Christmas music is for the...continue...

Sing We Now of Christmas / Taylor Festival Choir, Eric Whitacre

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2011-08-09

Works: Christmas Traditional: Work(s); In the Bleak Midwinter (Welsh); Sing We Now of Christmas (Noel Nouvelet); The Wexford Carol ("Good People All, This Christmastime") (Enniscorthy Carol) (Irish); Covent...
Performers: Carroll, Liz; Conant, Susan; Doyle, John [Celtic]; Hightower, Mark; Ivory, Beth; Jobe, Richard; Khoma, Natalia; Lee, Benjamin; Mallon, Danny; Masie, Matt [Percussion]; Miller, Kori; Robertson, Kim; T...
Conductors: Taylor, Robert

The Taylor Festival Choir offers an annual Celtic Christmas presentation in Charleston, South Carolina and with this recording, brings it into the listener's living room....continue...
Recording information: Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, South C (2010-06-17&2010-06-19&2010-)....continue...

Arise, Shine! / Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols in the style of Salisbury Cathedral

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2011-02-08

Works: Robert Lehman: Invocation and Matin Responsory; Vesper Responsory; Michael Praetorius: Come, Thou Redeemer of the Earth; Spoken Word: The Bidding Prayer; Scripture Reading; Anonymous: O Sapientia (fr...
Performers: Hernandez, Levi; Hoskins, Richard Barrick; Kahrmann, Katherine; Lee, Lisa Rogers; Lee, Rosalind; Reardon, Patrick
Conductors: Barber II, Bruce J.
Ensemble: St. James Cathedral Choir

This Advent festival is taken from the liturgy used at the great English Cathedral at Salisbury in England. The service conveys a central theological and...continue...
Recording information: St. James Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois (04/23/2010-04/26/2010)....continue...

As It Fell on A Holie Eve: Early English Christmas Music

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2010-09-14

Works: Thomas Ravenscroft: Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611); William Byrd: Rejoice, rejoice, with heart and voice; Gradualia seu cantiones sacrum, liber secundus, for 3-5 voices; Vidimus stellam ...
Performers: Baird, Julianne
Conductors:
Ensemble: Parthenia Vocal

Julianne Baird and the viol consort, Parthenia, offer an exquisite program of Christmas music as it might have been performed in the time of Elizabeth...continue...
Recording information: Concert Hall of Drew University, Dorothy Young Center f (06/2009).

Includes work(s) by William Byrd (Composer)....continue...

A Cathedral Christmas

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2010-09-14

Works: Randol Alan Bass: Gloria, for chorus; Christmas Traditional: The First Nowell (English); Dans le silence de la nuit (In the Still of the Night), carol (French); Carol For The King (French, 15th c.); ...
Performers: Donasco, Dee; Gwozdz, Lee; Pena, Dorothy; Vasquez, Charles
Conductors: Rivera, Guadalupe Jr.

The Choirs of Corpus Christi Cathedral offer a Christmas program of familiar carols....continue...
Recording information: Corpus Christi Cathedral, Corpus Christi, TX (08/10/2009-08/13/2009)....continue...

Christmas Spirit

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2009-12-08

Works: Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; George Frederick Handel: Joy to the World (theme by Handel); Gustav Holst: In the bleak mid-winter; Christmas Traditional: Ding Dong! Merrily ...
Performers: Groller, Richard; Mathiesen, Steven [Percussion]; Spear, Kevin [Percussion]; Vought, Michael

The Mainstreet Brass perform holiday classics and future favorites for brass quintet. Formed in 1986, Mainstreet Brass has performed for enthusiastic audiences at arts festivals,...continue...
Recording information: First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, PA (02/27/2009-03/01/2009)....continue...

Art of Posthorn / Douglas Hedwig

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2007-01-01

Works: Recorded Sound: Postal horn signal; Peter Strecks: Waltz for postal trumpet (no 23, Music for Posthorn, Vol. 1); Ländler for natural posthorn (no 19, Music for Posthorn, Vol. 1); Galopp for natu...
Performers: Hedwig, Douglas; Parodi, Jorge

Throughout much of the western world in the 18th and 19th centuries, the sounds of posthorns, bugles and signal-trumpets were a regular and meaningful part...continue...

Noël - 25 Hymns of Christmas / William Neil

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2006-08-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Joy to the World (theme by Handel); Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City, carol; John Francis Wade: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles); Johann Schop: Brich ...
Performers: Neil, William [Organ]

Even though the Christmas season is still a ways off, here is an outstanding disc to consider getting on hand a bit early! These works...continue...

Dialogues - American Music for Flute and Organ / Marianiello

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2003-08-01

Works: Gerald Near: Suite in Classical Style; Charles Callahan: Pastorale for flute & organ; Rayner Brown: Sonata for flute & organ; Frances Thompson McKay: Sumer is..., for flute & organ; Harald Rohlig: Ch...
Performers: Marianiello, Linda; Reas, Keith