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Holiday Issue, 2020 All Prices Good through 1/31/21 Music Highlights see page 3 Portraits Muisc for Solo SBMG 19075967592 $16.98

Country see page 37 Carrie Underwood My Gift AEC 003260102 $16.98

Classical see page 7 Recommendations Elgar Concerto DEC B003221602 $18.98

Jazz & Big Band see page 45 It’s a David Benoit Christmas! Partnered with: ’s wonderful music for a Charlie Brown Christmas STEI 30163 $16.98

Boxed Sets see page 16 Fritz Reiner The Complete Columbia Collection 14-CD Set

VT / KY / TN SBMG 19075936772 $59.98 see page 2 HBDirect Mixed-Genre Catalog HBDirect is pleased to present our Holiday Catalog for 2020! In these times, it has become increasingly clear to us just how important and essential music is for the well-being of so many people. While Holiday 2020 we’ve included pages of classical, and popular music here, this issue is clearly about Christmas - and of course, Christmas has its own soundtrack, personal and unique for each of us. Christmas Carols: SWR Vokal Ensemble Therefore, we have decided to present this year’s holiday catalog in our Mixed-Genre format, In Great Britain, Christmas carols are an integral part of Christmas just like plum conscious of the diversity of musical tastes we are serving. Even as some of you might be interested in the pudding and turkey, paper crowns and . The Festival of Nine Lessons same music as other customers, we wanted to offer choices – The First Noel, for example, performed by and Carols - a Christmas mass featuring King’s College Choir, nine short read- a vocal soloist, a choir, piano or , in a traditional style, a Medieval setting, perhaps jazz or country & ings and carols has been broadcast live every year since 1928 on Christmas western. We hope to have provided such a diverse range of choices here. If you have access to the internet, Eve. This album however contains traditional, centuries old Christmas Carols, please visit HBDirect.com for even more selections. arranged by British composers like Britten, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Byrd, to We thank you for coming to HBDirect for your music, and we wish you health and happiness this name just a few. 1 CD# SWRM 19094 $18.98 holiday season. Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 5 - Triple Concerto Born in Strasbourg, Elizabeth Sombart studied piano from the age of seven. She studied all over the world with various teachers, received the rank of Holiday Music Features in this Catalog Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2006 and then was awarded the Choral & Vocal Music for Christmas Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2008. Elizabeth has a strong From intimate arrangements with only a few voices to large choirs with brass and organ, relationship with the RPO and will be continuing this Beethoven Piano is so often set for chorus. Look for New Holiday Music (4 & 5); Choral Holiday Concerto cycle with them over the coming months. This third installment of Music (18-21); Christmas Carols (26 & 27); and Solo Vocal Music (28 & 29). this series features Beethoven’s mighty fifth piano concerto as well as his ever-popular triple concerto, featuring Duncan Riddell on violin and Richard A Classical Christmas Harwood on . 1CD# SIG 637 $17.98 It is fascinating to hear how the Christmas season was celebrated through the ages by solo voices, instruments, choirs or in various combinations of these performing forces. See our Rick Wakeman: Christmas Portraits Classical Holiday (10-13) & Early Music sections (22 & 23) on the pages noted. Keyboard legend, Rick Wakeman, famous the world over for his hugely successful and high-profile rock career, is pleased to celebrate the fes- Instrumental Christmas tive season with his release Christmas Portraits. With all tracks personally From the intimacy of carols performed by solo piano or guitar to grand settings for brass or full chosen and arranged by Wakeman himself, this special holiday album cel- , instrumental albums are perfect for dinner accompaniments and fireside listening ebrates Wakeman’s favorite time of the year as he performs festive music, alike. See Piano & Organ (17); A Brass Christmas (25) & Holiday Instrumentals (50 & 51). arranged for solo piano, all performed on his beloved Granary Steinway Model D grand piano. A former student and Fellow of the Royal College of Our Most Popular Holiday Albums Music, Wakeman has covered much musical ground during his wide-rang- Year after year (and decade after decade, in fact!), there is a group of holiday albums which will ing career 1CD# SBMG 19075967592 $16.98 be in demand every season. We are pleased to present Christmas Favorites (8 & 9); Naxos Holiday Favorites (24); Holiday Chestnuts (32 & 33) and Sony Christmas Classics (54 & 55). Christmas Jazz Bach Transcriptions 20-CD Set Simply because the tunes are so well known, the jazz idiom adds a welcome twist to what can Bach’s music is often described as indestructible, in the sense that no matter otherwise become ordinary. Of course, jazz is well loved here at HBD, so we are pleased to how it is performed, its essential spirit survives. Many of the transcriptions present: A Concord Christmas (34 & 35) and Jazz & Big Band Holidays (44 & 45). included here represent the work of contemporary, world-class performers bringing Bach’s masterpieces into the repertoire of their own instruments or Folk, Country, Popular, Kids & World ensembles, giving new timbres to the genius of Bach’s contrapuntal lines. The No matter what kind of music you enjoy, you can be certain to find that genre coloring the music much-loved Goldberg Variations, for example, are given not one, but two new of Christmas. Look for more selections in: Folk & Country Christmas (36 & 37); Popular Artists arrangements, as the interwoven voices for keyboard are divided between the (38 & 39); Christmas Around the World (47-49) and Kids & Family (52 & 53). members of a string trio and a recorder quintet. 20CD# BLC 95943 $56.98 Do You Get the Classics & Jazz Catalog? Get on the mailing list for our catalogs! In addition to this Mixed-Genre Catalog, HBDirect regularly publishes a specialty Classical & Jazz catalog. If you are interested, let us know. You A Taste Of Chanukah / Theodore Bikel & Hankus Netsky remain on the mailing list by placing orders. ‘A Taste of Chanukah’ features 150 from the New England Conserva- Note that, very rarely, a price may be incorrect tory, as well as the Boston Community Gospel Choir, Cantor Morton Shames, in a catalog and cannot be honored. and host Theodore Bikel. Celebrate the millenniums-old traditions of the Festival Changes to sales tax obligations of Lights with dance music, psalms, Klezmer, and even gospel tunes in this per- HBDirect is obliged by law to collect sales tax on fect Chanukah celebration. 1CD# RDR 1166131652 $14.98 merchandise and shipping from residents of VT (6%), KY (6%) and TN (9.725%). Mormon : Ultimate Christmas Collection Leave your wallet in your pocket! One of America’s best loved choral ensembles, the Mormon Tabernacle Introducing a new payment method on HBDirect.com! Choir presents this 25-track holiday collection which includes the most If you’ve placed an order in the previous three months popular sacred and secular Christmas music of all time. Classical hymns like by phone or on the web, you can select Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” and Schubert’s “,” are included, as Card On File as your payment method. well as twentieth century classics like ’s “White Christmas,” and We’ll bill your last-used credit card and Leroy Anderson’s “.” These recordings span several decades, contact you if we have any questions. and feature special guests including conductor Leonard Bernstein. 1CD# SBMG 88985359582 $14.98 New Holiday Music

The King’s Singers: Christmas Songbook A Winter’s Night: Christmas Music for Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Christmas Day Christmas With The 5 Browns This new release is the Christmas Brass Quintet & Organ in the Morning CD Imagine The 5 Browns hosting a festive equivalent of The King’s Singers’ recent The addition of a brass ensemble to Celebrate the Christmas season with the dinner party where classical piano music is release, Great American Songbook. Christmas concerts and carol services, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra the focus of the night. Snow falls and sleigh Paying homage to the a capella group’s combining with the more traditional at Temple Square as they are joined by bells ring through the stories told through the heritage while still acknowledging their sounds of choir and organ, has become Kelli O’Hara, acclaimed Broadway star, as melodies of Christmas music written through modern passion for swing, the group increasingly popular in recent years. well as Emmy Award-winning actor Richard the ages. Whether performing individually mixes Christmas classics like “In the This recording brings together a number Thomas. The musical selections include or together in various combinations from Bleak Midwinter,” and “The and the of works for the specific forces of choir, charming American folk carols, selections duo to complex five-piano arrangements, Ivy,” with modern tunes such as “Winter brass quintet, organ and percussion, from timeless Broadway productions by The 5 Browns reveal a deep connection to Wonderland,” “,” and “Sleigh Ride.” The group’s some of which have been arranged Rodgers & Hammerstein, and a breathtaking the intent of their material while bringing a favorite arrangers have reworked all of these tunes specifically for the specially for this release. Interspersed amongst these works are original composition entitled “Tree of Life,” by . The production fresh energy and dynamic character to the ensemble – Berty Rice, Keith Roberts, and Alexander L’Estrange. a selection of popular Christmas carols which have formed an features the unparalleled 360-voice choir exulting in the “Hallelujah Chorus,” color and tonal spectrum of their sound. CD# SIG 459 $17.98 integral part of Winchester College Chapel Choir’s core repertoire for by Handel. CD# STEI 30124 $17.98 many years. Christmas in Puebla CD# MRMT 5244327 $16.98 CD# SIG 646 $17.98 Mormon Tabernacle Choir: VOCES8: Christmas Composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla The Secret Life of Carols: 800 years of Christmas Day in the Morning DVD The international award-winning octet, migrated from Cádiz to New Spain Christmas Music DVD# MRMT 5244322 $19.98 VOCES8, has established itself at the (modern-day Mexico) in the early forefront of British a cappella. Performing 1620s, and remained there for 40 years, The Secret Life of Carols brings together Ruppe: a repertoire ranging from Renaissance composing prolifically right up to his death a mixture of the earliest medieval English polyphony to unique Jazz and Pop in 1664. With this festive release, Siglo In the late 1790s Christian Friedrich Ruppe carols and traditional carols from across arrangements, the group has been praised de Oro explores the rich soundworld of composed a pair of cantatas on anonymous Europe. The title is inspired by the fact for stunning performance, exquisite singing this time and place: a sonic landscape Dutch texts, designed for an orphanage choir. that many carols have intertwined roots, and creating a sound that spans the entire ultimately quite different from the one Despite their musical richness and evident dating back centuries, often to the Middle range of vocal color. “There’s nowhere to hide Padilla had left behind in Europe. Evoking a Mass at beauties, the scores remained in the archives Ages, with melodies being adapted and in a vocal octet, and VOCES8’s singing is affords the opportunity to include a number of villancicos – energetic, of the orphanage, only to be rediscovered reinvented, and new sets of words written. faultless – jaw-droppingly so in places...” dance-like pieces whose captivating mixture of Mexican, Afro-Hispanic in 1987. The cantatas exhibit many charms: Many of these carols, like the Burgundian – Financial Times unfailingly graceful phrasing, fresh melodic and Portuguese influences would have invigorated even the most carol “Patapan,” have roots going back centuries, some as far back as charm and sympathetic writing for voices. sober churchgoer. the Middle Ages. Other tracks include “Lullay, My Child,” “Verbum Caro CD# SIG 291 $16.98 The work concludes with a -and-drum CD# DELP 34238 $19.98 Factum est,” “As I Lay Upon a Night,” and more. chorus in the style of oratorios such as Homilus: Christmas & Cantatas CD# FHR 94 $18.98 Messiah and The Creation. Soli Deo Gloria 2-CD This album marks the recording premiere of The Gesualdo Six: Christmas CD# BLC 96108 $16.98 Virtuoso trumpeter Andrew Balio’s four cantatas by Gottfried August Homilius superlative transcriptions of music by J.S. For centuries Christmas and the Choral Scholars of UC Dublin: Be All Merry for Advent and Christmas. Homilius was Bach delight the listener with both new surrounding seasons have inspired the number one composer of Protestant and familiar sounds. Bach affirmed that composers to new heights of invention. Be All Merry is one of three new pieces church music during the second half of the “the aim and final end of all music should This program reaches across the ages, especially composed for the Choral Scholars. 18th-century and during his lifetime was be none other than the glory of God and from the eternal beauty of the Tudor This lively carol for choir, orchestra and violin regarded as perhaps today’s very best church the refreshment of the soul.” Balio and church right up to the 21st-century, with by Irish composer Eoghan Desmond evokes composer. Arias of great tonal beauty, the organist Bruce Bengtson partner in this each piece chosen to evoke a sense of the joyful play of Christmas in the lines “Be all naturalness of their expression, and the exceptional album of the enduring music mystery and joy. Themes and forms are merry in this house / Exultet celum laudibus!”. dramatic suspense of the various numbers of J.S. Bach. Andrew Balio is the principal trumpet of the Baltimore echoed through the ages: two lullabies, The recording contains a remarkable setting continue to fascinate listening audiences Symphony and the founder of the Future Symphony Institute. though written centuries apart, employ coaxing refrains to be sung to of the Advent plainsong hymn “Christe even today! disquieted children; some of the most exquisite melodies are found in Redemptor Omnium” for tenor solo, chorus, CD# CPO 555278 $16.98 2CD# DEL 3560 $24.98 works dedicated to Mary. violin, and violoncello. CD# HYP 68299 $19.98 CD# SIG 643 $17.98 John Rutter: Christmas Night – Carols of the Christmas in Augsburg Bach: BWV 248 When Augustus Reigned: Byzantine Tradition Nativity Christmas in Augsburg is a festive There is hardly a more perfect musical On Christmas Night, The Cambridge Singers, Christmas concert of motets, songs and On this release, Cappella Romana sings formula for the beginning of the Christmas The City of London Sinfonia, and conductor instrumental settings, telling about the a rich selection of ancient and modern season than the festively recited John Rutter have managed to fit more coming Savior and his birth. It is part Byzantine Christmas music in the original opening motif of Johann Sebastian than six centuries of Christmas music into and parcel of the close relationship to Greek. Cappella Romana is a professional Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. But in his 22 tracks. Songs include traditional hymns Augsburg shared by all of the featured vocal ensemble that performs early and six cantatas, assigned to the individual and carols like “In Dulci Jubilo,” “A Virgin Most composers that the concerns of both contemporary sacred in holidays, the great Thomaskantor Pure,” and “I Wonder as I Wander,” as well Christian faiths, the Catholic and the the Christian traditions of East and West. goes far beyond pure jubilation. Rainer as modern choral arrangements like “There Protestant, are taken into account in The ensemble is known especially for its Johannes Homburg and his Stuttgart is a Flower,” and “Nativity Carol,” both by their music. The music as such was considered to be above and presentations and recordings of medieval Hymnus-Chorknaben have now given a new version of the “musical John Rutter. beyond denomination. The music’s striving for “harmony” overcomes Byzantine chant (the Eastern sibling of Gregorian chant), Greek and Russian message” about the birth of Christ, supported by competent soloists all human conflict with the promise of the eternal peace of Christmas, Orthodox choral works, and other sacred music that expresses the historic CD# COL 526 $16.98 and Handel’s Company, whose opulence is particularly well disclosed by the angel’s hymn of the biblical Annuciation: “Et in terra traditions of a unified Christian inheritance. expressed in the three-dimensional sound of this album. pax hominibus.” CD# CPLR 502 $18.98 CD# MDG 9022183 $18.98 Motets for Advent & Christmas CD# PCTN 1802 $17.98 Mirabile Mysterium: Choral Music for A Ceremony of Carols Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler, two of the So Hallow’d the Time: Christmas Music Christmas A glorious collection of Christmas music most important German church musicians of the 20th-century, come together with this This release – the Taylor Festival spanning over 900 years, centered around Mirabile Mysterium refers to the birth of new recording. Like Pepping, Distler oriented Choir’s second album for Delos – Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” – a work Christ. Spiritual consideration of this himself with church tonality, but also used features original Christmas works by seen as both a signal of Britten’s turn mystery of faith has inspired composers pentatonic scales. Distler’s models were the two distinguished American composers: back towards English musical and cultural of various religious persuasions to create polyphonic models of the Baroque, especially Brian Galante, whose choral works and traditions and as a distinctly modern special works in commemoration. This those by Heinrich Schütz. It is highly arrangements have met with worldwide composition. Owen Rees and the Choir of release includes Advent songs as well interesting to combine these two who were so acclaim; and the late, great Stephen The Queen’s College, Oxford present this as other works specifically concerning different in their compositional approach but Paulus. The two multi-movement works alongside works that alternate between the themselves with the Christmas event. This quite related composers in a production – as presented in this album – Galante’s “So early 17th-century – by that most prolific composer and arranger of Lutheran program spanning six centuries offers us in this compilation of Christmas choral works Hallow’d the Time” and Paulus’s “Christmas Dances” – are heard here Christmas music, Michael Praetorius – and the present. “An undoubted jewel the opportunity to trace the history of the spiritual fusion of the Advent from Pepping’s “Spandau choir book” and in world premiere recordings. in Britain’s choral scene.” – BBC Music Magazine and Christmas seasons in music. Distler’s “Jahrkreis.” CD# SIG 627 $17.98 CD# DEL 3580 $16.98 CD# CPO 555318 $16.98 CD# CTE 58050 $14.98 4 5 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 New Classical Recommendations

Nicola Benedetti: Elgar – Violin Concerto Bach: Redemption Igor Levit: Encounter 2-CD Brandon Patrick George: Sonatas & GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Nicola Anna Prohaska asked Igor Levit’s double album Encounter seeks Solo Works Benedetti’s new album explores music by and the at the outset sounds that give inner strength and support Flautist Brandon Patrick George describes his Britain’s beloved composer, . of the coronavirus crisis whether they for the soul. In works by Bach to Max Reger, debut album as a dialogue between the past The centerpiece is his “Violin Concerto in shouldn’t spontaneously organize a musical based on poignant vocal compositions, and the future. It is indeed quite a leap in time B minor, Op. 61,” performed by Benedetti get-together in this period. This has now the desire for encounters and human from to the Finnish with the London Philharmonic Orchestra resulted in Redemption. This is a sequence togetherness is given expression. The works composer Kalevi Aho, born in 1949 – yet conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. The vast and of music selected solely from Bach cantatas, create a community of experience for many he has included works for solo flute by both technically demanding concerto is coupled compiled in keeping with the aforenamed individuals forced to maintain distance from composers on this recording. There are also with three short works for violin and piano: conceptual association. These musicians one another. They establish contact with two important chamber works for a flute and “Salut d’Amour,” “Sospiri” and “Chanson serve a dual role: they expertly accompany the arias that Anna sings and religious and inward spirituality. In addition, the inner connections between piano duo which represent milestones in the de Nuit.” they also represent the concept of human interaction and a shared collective the composers and their respective aesthetics make Encounter a journey repertoire: a sonata by Sergei Prokofiev, and a sonatina by Pierre Boulez. CD# DEC B003221602 $18.98 experience which has been missing during these times. offering astonishing discoveries, even on ostensibly familiar terrain. This release represents a walk through musical history spanning 300 years. CD# AHP 658 $18.98 2CD# SNYC 19439786572 $16.98 CD# PRF 18039 $18.98 Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms, Bartók & Liszt Annie Fischer: Secrets 2-CD Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Op. 18 2-CD Mieczysław Weinberg; Piano Quintet, Op. 18 In 2019, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow Annie Fischer (1914–1995) was a leading Five years after Shostakovich premiered became the first French pianist to win figure in the Hungarian music world for seven The Dover Quartet launches its emerging, his quintet to turbulent success in 1940, his the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. decades. Throughout her career she played three-volume complete Beethoven quartet new friend Weinberg premiered one of his This album, his first release since the mainly in Europe and Australia, but was cycle with the six Opus 18 quartets, often own. For the premiere on March 18th, the Tchaikovsky Competition, offers plenty seldom heard in the United States until late cited as the epitome of the classical string 27-year-old Weinberg got the String Quartet of scope for virtuosity, poetry and charm, in her lifetime. Physiotherapist Anna Dévény quartet as developed by Haydn and of the Bolshoi and a 30-year-old pianist, always filtered through an acute stylistic started following Annie Fischer’s career in Mozart while foreshadowing Beethoven’s already famous then, by the name of Emil consciousness. The program is constructed the 1950s, then from the beginning of the future innovations. Quartet-in-residence at Gilels. The Quintet Op. 18 is one of the around three rhapsodies, a genre whose 1970s until the pianist’s death, she recorded Northwestern University’s Bienen School unequivocally great chamber pieces of that improvisatory character corresponds perfectly with the spirit of Romanticism her concerts on a tape recorder. These two of Music, the Dover is also the first-ever time and it is a superb entry-point into the here interpreted by three highly distinct artistic temperaments: albums are a selection from these recordings, quartet-in-residence for the Kennedy Center world of Weinberg. Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Béla Bartók. including the Schubert A minor and A major in Washington, D.C., among other prestigious sonatas. posts. “Lovers of should put CD# CAP 5366 $16.98 CD# BIS 2380 $19.98 the Dover Quartet on their to-hear list.” 2CD# HGR 32845 $18.98 – The Washington Post Juan Diego Flórez Sings Mozart DVD Lang Lang: Bach-Goldberg Variations 2-CD 2CD# CDL 198 $16.98 Acclaimed across the globe for the beauty of his Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations Viva Italia: Su le sponde del Tebro voice and the emotional power of his performances, stands as a work of unique, brilliant artistry The Brass Quintet of Deutsches Kastalsky: Requiem Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, famous for his in piano literature. Lang Lang first began Symphonie-Orchester Berlin shows us the A student of Tchaikovsky and a mentor bel canto repertoire by Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, exploring the masterpiece 20 years ago, rich and colorful musical landscape of Italy. of Rachmaninoff, Alexander Kastalsky shows in this concert DVD another fascinating now presenting this album as the outcome Spanning from the Baroque Era through the was the director of the Moscow Synodal side to his vocal personality. The concert program of a long, personal, emotional journey. A new modern hits of our time, these five musicians School until the Bolshevik regime banned includes many of the most popular Mozart arias – all stage in Lang Lang’s artistic development, it offer a diversified tour through musical history. all sacred music. Among the banned works of them magnificently performed by the Orchestra La is the project of a lifetime. Alongside a studio With soprano Siobhan Stagg, one of the was Katalsky’s own Requiem for Fallen Scintilla, an ensemble with outstanding reputation recording is a contrasting performance, most outstanding young artists to emerge Brothers. After its banning, the work lay for their historical performance practice. This all-Mozart recital takes place a single take from a recital in Leipzig’s iconic St. Thomas Church, where from Australia in recent years, they have a untouched for more than a century. Now, the at the Cuvilliés Theatre of Munich, one of the most beautiful Bavarian Bach worked and is now buried. This project is also available as a welcome additional support for their creative Orchestra of St. Luke’s presents its world Rococo theatres. 4-CD Deluxe Edition – a unique offering with both recordings. and virtuoso arrangements. premiere recording. DVD# CME 754808 $29.98 2CD# DGG B003244202 $22.98 CD# CAP 5402 $16.98 CD# NXS 8574245 $12.98 Juan Diego Flórez Sings Mozart Blu-ray Lang Lang: Bach-Goldberg Variations Deluxe 4-CD Set BR# CME 754904 $41.98 4CD# DGG B003244402 $31.98 J.S. Bach: St. John Passion Beyond Perfection – The Pianist Arturo (The Köln Recording) 2-CD Rutter: Anthems, Hymns, and Gloria for Benedetti Michelangeli DVD Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Quartets 2-CD On 6 of March 2020, Brass Bands Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli – even among fellow By the time Felix Mendelssohn composed his began their long-awaited 30th anniversary pianists this name almost evokes reverence, because first three opus-numbered works he had a John Rutter, Britain’s most successful tour of Europe in Katowice, Poland. The it stands for the highest perfection. But it also stands substantial catalogue of chamber, vocal and contemporary choral composer, has written same week Europe was becoming aware of for concert cancellations at short notice and artist’s orchestral works to his credit – all at the age most of his sacred music to commission, and the very stark reality of the new Corona virus, neuroses, which the media spread with delight. of 15! This trio of piano quartets predates the for use in church services. Composed for Covid-19. Consequently, concert halls across Beyond Perfection is the result of a 30-year search miraculous Octet for strings, yet each of them his first American tour, “Gloria” was also his Europe were closing down and the remaining for traces, which has not only led to interesting holds its distinct appeal. A fluent grasp of form first great international success, combining tour dates were cancelled. Before leaving, the contemporary witnesses, but in particular has brought and voicing can be taken for granted in one an ethereal quality with moments of BCJ agreed with the Kölner Philharmonie to to light a wealth of new archive material: With this already thoroughly schooled in compositional exhilaration. This new release coincides with go ahead with a concert that had been planned, in the form of a livestream DVD, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli has never been technique. Mendelssohn was still finding his own voice, melodically speaking, the composer’s 75th birthday in September without an audience. That concert is available here as a testimony not only seen or heard like this before. while emerging from the shadow of Mozart and Beethoven, but these are 2020 – a perfect moment to celebrate one of Britain’s most successful and to the drama of Bach’s score, but also to the urgency of a week when the already pieces with his fingerprints alone. internationally well-known composers of choral music. world changed. DVD# CME 755208 $29.98 2CD# BLC 95532 $14.98 CD# NXS 8574130 $12.98 2CD# BIS 2551 $39.98 The Singing Guitar The wonderful Conspirare chamber Essential Royal Ballet 4-DVD Set Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 choir, known for its interpretive depth and This 4-DVD collection of highlights from the past Sunwook Kim has received outstanding After the Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth other-worldly sonic lushness, offers another ten years at the Royal Ballet, weaves the history of international reviews for his previous solo Symphonies, BR-Klassik is now also of its captivating programs – this time joined ballet through carefully curated excerpts from the recordings of piano works by Beethoven, releasing the Fifth Symphony by this by three superb guitar quartets – in a program past decade. With stunning solos, passionate pas Brahms and Franck. The composer important composer – performed live by remarkably relevant for our time. The choir de deux and jaw-dropping numbers for the corps de Johannes Brahms is also very close to the the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen is joined by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, ballet, it is a chance to see your favourite dancers pianist’s heart and it is no coincidence that Rundfunks under its long-time chief the Texas Guitar Quartet, the Austin Guitar up close, including Carlos Acosta, Marianela Nuñez, his Piano Concerto No. 1 was at the heart conductor Mariss Jansons. To this day Quartet, and cellist Douglas Harvey for this Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae, alongside rising of Kim’s Asia tour with the Sächsische the music has lost none of its fascination, release. Conspirare is a GRAMMY-winning stars like Francesca Hayward and Matthew Ball. Staatskapelle in the fall of 2019. The and the Fifth Symphony ranks as one of ensemble comprised distinctive solo artists The ballets featured include the classics Giselle, recording of Piano Concerto is complemented Shostakovich’s best-known works. who are also committed to the highest level of La Bayadere, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and by the Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118. ensemble performance. CD# BRK 900191 $16.98 The . CD# ACTS 30501 $18.98 CD# DEL 3595 $16.98 4DVD# BOA 1313D $24.98 6 7 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 Christmas Favorites

Robert Shaw: The Many Moods of Christmas Festival of Carols Bach: Christmas Oratorio 2-CD Dashing: Sounds of the Season The Many Moods of Christmas is a This collection of best-loved Christmas For many, the Christmas holiday This festive album presents brand new collection of Robert Russell Bennett repertoire was recorded live at the season would be incomplete without works as well as new arrangements of arrangements of Christmas carols, which Indianapolis Symphonic Choir Festival the resounding drum roll and trumpet holiday favorites by several remarkable has been a holiday classic ever since of Carols concerts in 2015 and 2016. fanfare that opens Bach’s “Oratorium composers. Artists include The Stanbery Robert Shaw first recorded them with his GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist Sylvia auf die Heilige Weynacht” (“Oratorio for Singers, the Moravian Philharmonic Chorale during the early ‘60s. So popular McNair adds her own unique beauty the Holy Christmas”). The performance Orchestra, and the Salt Lake City Jazz was the recording that the Telarc label and warmth, and as ever, the program presented here, led by Bach’s 17th Orchestra. The 14 tracks include songs decided to re-record the identical program celebrates the joys of the season with successor together with like “O Holy Night,” “Dance of the Sugar in glorious digital sound, this time with sparkling versions of family favorites. The the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, features Plum Fairy,” from The Nutcracker, “The Shaw the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. These tranquillity and magic of Christmas eve, heartfelt messages of hope, a lineup of renowned soloists, enabling one to experience the festive Holly and the Ivy,” “A Lullaby for the 18 tracks include “,” “What Child Is This,” “Hark! reconciliation and peace, and thrilling new compositions all combine to grandeur of what many consider the epitome of Christmas music in its Nativity,” and many more. Angels Sing,” and “Patapan.” capture the celebratory excitement of the holiday season. original setting. CD# NVA 6055 $17.98 CD# TLC 80087 $14.98 CD# NXS 8579065 $12.98 2CD# ACTS 30469 $29.98 The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album Bach: Christmas Oratorio 2-DVD 2DVD# ACTS 20479 $39.98 John Rutter: Christmas Star: Conductor John Rutter selects some of his favorite Christmas carols, old and new, from classic Cambridge Singers Bach: Christmas Oratorio Blu-ray recordings, including several of his own arrangements and never-before-released gems, to make this essential A Christmas Festival 2-CD Set Christmas collection. Vaughan Williams’ majestic “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” closes while a spirited version of “The BR# ACTS 10479 $39.98 This collection includes some of John Holly and the Ivy” opens this essential album conducted by a man referred to as the “musical equivalent to Dickens, Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium Rutter’s favorite carols from classic synonymous with the season of Christmas”. – The Guardian Cambridge Singers recordings, and much CD# COL 512 $14.98 This release from the Chamber loved Christmas arrangements by Rutter. Choir of Europe presents four works This package contains two of Collegium by contemporary composer Morten Records’ best-selling Christmas releases, Lauridsen. The disc opens with his 1993 combined in a festive twin-pack. Songs Festive Frolic: A Celebration of Christmas A Classic Christmas: Songs of Praise work “Les Chansons des Roses,” followed include “The Shepherd’s Carol,” “Adeste by the beautiful 1997 composition “Lux Fidelis,” “Nos Galan (New Year’s Eve),” Roderick Elms’ Christmas music ranges Christmas is a time of singing, a time Aeterna.” His six-movement piece and more. It’s an ideal gift for Christmas. from charming and witty arrangements for giving, and a time of celebration with Madrigali follows, and rounding out the of well-loved traditional carols to new family and friends. Naxos Family Classics 2CD# COL 306 $24.98 album is the title track, his famous 1994 settings and festive orchestral pieces is proud to offer you this second “Songs composition “O Magnum Mysterium,” a written for this very special season. The of Praise” recording for the Christmas staple in choir literature around the world. charm and immediate appeal of his music holidays. A Classic Christmas: Songs of The Bells of Christmas has been captivating audiences across Praise is crafted with care to provide you CD# HAN 98272 $18.98 the country for many years and this with a soundtrack for the season. From Nothing evokes Christmas like selection represents some of his most the holiday standard “Silent Night,” to Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker SACD bells – ringing from a church steeple, popular works, together with a few new ones such as the spectacular the hauntingly beautiful “Ave Maria,” and joyful “Ding Dong Merrily on After the tremendous success of Swan accompanying a sleigh ride, or suite “ Down the Wind” for organ and orchestra. High,” this disc will provide you a treasured collection you will enjoy Lake, Vladimir Jurowski and the State adorning evergreens. In this best-selling CD# NXS 8570793 $12.98 year after year. Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia album, the Christmas spirit is joyfully CD# NXS 8555292 $12.98 continue their Tchaikovsky ballet series expressed through beloved carols Christmas Star: Carols for the Christmas on Pentatone with this SACD recording of performed on six-and-a-half octave set Season Dandrieu: Magnificats The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky’s enchanting of Malmark handbells. The Gloriæ Dei masterpiece is an absolute audience Ringers include old favorites in new A child wonder who stirred the admiration The most successful first-year favorite, thanks to hits such as the “Waltz arrangements, as well as original handbell of the Court, Jean-François Dandrieu was album release in Collegium history! of the Flowers,” “Trepak” and “Dance of works. Tracks include “March of the a virtuoso harpsichordist but above all, Christmas Star is an entertaining the Sugar Plum Fairy,” but also due to the Kings,” “What Child Is This?,” “Away in a organist of the Royal Chapel of Versailles collection of familiar holiday tunes and composer’s ability to evoke a sense of Manger,” “A Flight of Angels,” and more. from 1721. Here are Magnificats, pieces carols, performed by the Cambridge wonder in listeners both young and old. CD# PRCP 122 $14.98 Singers. Songs include “I Wonder As for Christmas and some splendid I Wander,” “All My Heart This Night hallmark scores that offer snapshots of CD# PTE 5186761 $19.98 the liturgical art of the King’s Organist at Rejoices,” “,” and more. Christmas Vespers: Music of “This is good, straight a cappella holiday the height of the French baroque. Jean- Handel: Messiah 2-CD music and should satisfy fans of that Baptiste Robin, organist of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, makes the Michael Praetorius Handel’s Messiah has been recorded style.” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine Great Organ ring with majesty. “Music for the people” could have been many times and in many settings with CD# COL 503 $14.98 CD# CHUV 023 $18.98 the motto for 17th-century German various ensembles, and yet never loses composer Michael Praetorius. He Christmas Favorite Classics any of its strength. This historic recording The Nutcracker: Royal Opera House DVD adhered to the ideals of Protestant of Leonard Bernstein, the New York pioneer Martin Luther that music, like This all-time ballet favorite, in which young Clara For almost 2000 years people around the Philharmonic, and the Westminster Choir religion, should be open and free to all. is swept into a fantasy adventure when one world have been gathering to celebrate was made in the 1950s. With Bernstein Christmas Vespers is an assemblage of her Christmas presents comes to life, is at the Christmas season. These celebrations at the podium the result is obviously of works by Praetorius. It highlights his its most enchanting in Peter Wright’s glorious are as varied as their countries of origin dramatic, theatrical, and very intense. virtuosic vocal and instrumental writing, production – as fresh as ever in its 25th year. but share at least two common threads, and includes as interludes his popular carol settings “O Morning Star” 2CD# UTDC 2012075 $17.98 Tchaikovsky’s ravishing score, period designs by the birth of Jesus and the desire to and “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming.” Julia Trevelyan Oman, an exquisite Sugar Plum celebrate this event in music. Carols such Fairy (Miyako Yoshida) and chivalrous Prince as “Silent Night,” “O Holy Night” or “Ave CD# AIE 2306 $17.98 (Steven McRae), the mysterious Drosselmeyer Maria” are sung throughout the world and Rós: Songs of Christmas SACD need little introduction. Many of the tracks on this disc are less known A Seraphic Fire Christmas (Gary Avis) and vibrant dancing by The Royal Ballet make for a With this original and wide-ranging but great Christmas carols. captivating DVD performance. A collection of splendid renditions of Christmas collection, Grete Pedersen, DVD# BOA 1036 $29.98 CD# NXS 8578342 $12.98 Christmas hymns and carols in both artistic director of the Norwegian Soloists’ Latin and English. Tracks include “Pater Choir, combines 12th-century hymns Nuit de Noël 2-CD Noster,” “Once in David’s Royal City,” by Hildegard of Bingen with a carol by “Quem Pastores Laudavere,” “Tomorrow the Danish 20th-century composer This two-album collection includes beautiful songs from Noël Baroque, a release by the Maîtrise de Radio France and Shall Be My Dancing Day,” “Verbum Caro Per Nørgård, as well as traditional Les Musiciens de Saint Julien under François Lazarevitch. The second album presents excerpts from great sacred Factum Est,” “Ave Maria,” and more. Christmas psalms, in many cases classical masterpieces (such as Handel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria by Hervé Niquet, and Bach’s B minor Mass Seraphic Fire brings together professional sung to Norwegian folk tunes following by Raphaël Pichon) as well as instrumental pieces. 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Christmas – The Night Office: Vigils Christmas with Bach: Organ Works SACD Missa Ave Maris Stelle Marian Audite Chamber Choir: This Advent Moon It’s not often you get to visit a Benedictine Gerhard Löffler, the organist at the The Weser Renaissance ensemble of This album is comprised of both older monastery founded in 1010 in western Church of St. James in Hamburg, dedicates itself to the grand and never-before recorded pieces France, let alone experience night prayer has selected this title for his MDG master of polyphony: Desprez. The by composers singing in Audite there on Christmas Eve. That is the rare debut. And to it we may add: “And with mass Ave maris stella frames Marian Chamber Choir. Having the composer and unforgettable opportunity afforded Arp Schnitger.” After all, Schnitger’s motets in praise of the Blessed Virgin sing their own pieces adds a very by this unique recording. Opening with masterpiece of organ design in St. James from a time when Marian poetry unique tension to the performance: an organ prelude, this recording contains is not only the largest instrument by this rich in imagery and tender devotion the choir, the conductor and the every part of this traditional liturgical Northern German organ builder, but also belonged to the core repertoire of composer all have a different take on prayer, including the invitatory, hymns, has what qualifies as the most important Catholic culture. His source was a the piece, and resolving that tension antiphons and psalms, readings and responsory, all beautifully chanted extant original pipework from the 16th and 17th centuries. With these poetically colored 9th-century Marian hymn in six stanzas. A is required for the piece to become whole. This tension gives in clear Latin. Join the monks of Solesmes as they celebrate the birth resources it very much makes its presence felt in the music and vibrant sound document attesting to a living faith translated into rise to new interpretations of old pieces, and grants new pieces of Jesus at the same time of night that he was born in . interpretation. And when captured in magnificent three-dimensional music and transmitted to the senses! the excitement they deserve. The Audite Chamber Choir is the “Setting the standard for Gregorian performance.” sound, it is guaranteed to spread the Christmas spirit throughout the CD# CPO 777590 $16.98 official choir of The Helsinki Conservatory of Music. – American Record Guide year. CD# ABA 56 $18.98 CD# PRCP 832 $18.98 CD# MDG 9062123 $18.98 Cozzolani: Vespro della Beata Vergine 2-CD Capella SF Christmas: Light of Gold Bach: Magnificat Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was Messiah (Dublin Version, 1742) 2-SACD a Benedictine nun who lived in Ragnar Bohlin founded Cappella With the Magnificat, written to celebrate For an infinitely more rewarding fresh the convent of Santa Radegonda, SF, a professional chamber choir, Mary’s joy after the , and his look at Handel’s most familiar music, look near Milan. Despite the limitations in 2014. Since then, this select Bay oldest Christmas Cantata, Bach opens no further than the Dunedin Consort’s placed on women at the time, she Area ensemble has presented four up for us the gates of what is sacred performance of Handel’s first version, went on to publish four collections acclaimed concerts and recorded as well as to our own relationship with premiered at Dublin in 1742. This of vocal music. This release music for two CDs. Spanning more spirituality. These pieces, amongst the Dublin score contains some fascinating celebrates her legacy. The 2-discs than a millennium, this holiday most beautiful ever composed, are no music that Handel never reused, such include 23 tracks in all, all of which program has something for everyone: doubt the best way possible to open the as the substantial chorus “Break Forth are expertly performed by the traditional seasonal standards, Christmas period. Led here by the very Into Joy”. The exuberant direction by ensemble Magnificat, directed by original compositions and arrangements from English and young but nonetheless inspired Valentin harpsichordist John Butt is meticulously stylish and utterly devoid of Warren Stewart. American composers, as well as leading choral masters Tournet who conducts his ensemble crassly pretentious egotism. The playing is unerringly spontaneous 2CD# MUSA 0103 $19.98 from Bohlin’s native Sweden, including a piece composed for La Chapelle Harmonique. and dramatically integrated with singers who illustrate profound Cappella SF by Fredrik Sixten that’s heard here in its world CD# CHUV 009 $18.98 appreciation of text. Telemann: Christmas Oratorios premiere recording. CD# DEL 3485 $16.98 Kreger: Have Yourself a Merry Cello Christmas 2CD# LINN 285 $32.98 This Telemann album is a special highlight for the Christmas season Cantatas for Advent: Liturgica Internationally acclaimed cellist, James Vaughan Williams: Christmas Music bringing together three oratorios Kreger, has created a Christmas album from the Oratorischer Jahrgang The “Liturgical Year with Johann with a difference. In his own words: There’s no better way to get into the for the church year 1730/31 and Sebastian Bach” series has already “The more I thought about it, the more Christmas spirit than with this enchanting a cantata from the annual cycle cut an impressive figure in choral I realized that the thrill of engaging the disc, which Musicalisches Lob Gottes printed in recordings. The Thomanerchor most profound and challenging cello contains some delightful rarities. OK, so score form in Nuremberg in 1744. The Leipzig returns with a fourth disc, masterpieces does not inhibit my deep there are the requisite number of carols, oratorios are new discoveries and which celebrates Bach’s music for affection for these Christmas melodies but nothing ever sounds hackneyed from premiere recordings. Telemann’s opulent settings were made the First Sunday of Advent. They are or my desire to ‘sing’ them, as so Vaughan Williams. With glowing playing to order for the rich resources of Hamburg’s church music, joined by the Gewandhausorchester many people around the world love to do.” The result is an album of and singing under the baton of Richard for which he had available eight vocalists as well as some to perform the music that would Christmas music skilfully arranged with the cello taking the vocal line. Hickox, there’s plenty for the head as well 20 instrumentalists. define Advent, as Bach adhered to as the Christmas hearth. – Gramophone CD# GUI 7812 $14.98 CD# CPO 555254 $16.98 the practice of tempus clausum for CD# CHA 10385 $18.98 the remainder of the season. Dixit Dominus: Magnificat Handel: Messiah (Sir Andrew Davis) 2-SACD CD# RDAU 4040 $18.98 Bach: Christmas Oratorio 2-CD Set Lionel Meunier and his ensemble Experience the transcendent glory of Bach: 2-SACD Dunedin Consort is excited to present Vox Luminis devote this new Messiah in Sir Andrew Davis’s majestic, Christmas Oratorio, which follows the project to two showpieces by The Concerto Copenhagen presents must-hear edition of Handel’s beloved massive success of 2015’s Magnificat & Handel and Bach. Of these two Bach’s Mass in B minor on two classic. Recorded live on SACD, this Christmas Cantata. Conductor John Butt composers born in 1685, the first SACDs featuring this extraordinary unique version makes use of all the applies his extensive knowledge of Bach’s traveled to Italy in 1707 and made ensemble and top-class soloists. The colors available from the modern performing practices to present the range a powerful impression in Rome with Mass in B minor is regarded as one symphony orchestra to underline the of choral scoring that Bach seems to the creation of his Dixit Dominus, of the outstanding achievements of mood and meaning of the individual have used, realizing something of the while the second produced one of music history. With this recording, the movements. Without detracting from implications of the composer’s performing his finest compositional tours de force in the Magnificat of customary lower concert pitch from the innate power of the original, the conductor’s score calls for conditions and decisions. The Dunedin 1723/32–35. Two works from the core repertoire of the Belgian his times forms the tuning standard, moments of drama, pathos, and even, sometimes, whimsicality. It is Consort has established a reputation ensemble, here fielding combined vocal and instrumental and the orchestra’s instrumental supported by substantial brass and woodwind forces, and several as one of the finest period performance forces, which is perfectly versed in the style and expression of dimensions correspond to those of percussion instruments. choirs around. Baroque rhetoric. Bach’s own ensemble. 2CD# CHA 5176 $39.98 2CD# LINN 499 $32.98 CD# AHP 370 $18.98 2CD# CPO 777851 $33.98 Joy to the World: Glorious Collection of Cantus: Fryd (Joy) 2-SACD Bach: Magnificat in E flat / Missa in F major Christmas Carols The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet) 2-SACD With Fryd (English – “Joy”), Cantus The Monteverdi Choir and English Tchaikovsky’s Christmas masterpiece is Christmas carols, whether from our own invites you on a musical journey Baroque Soloists celebrate Christmas presented here on 2-discs, performed time of centuries past, are a perfect by the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre that starts in the meeting of two with a mixed program of J.S. Bach’s reflection of the warmth and homely Moscow, conducted by Alexander significant female figures: Mother sacred choral works. These works intimacy of the season. This rich and Vedernikov. If you are looking for an and Mary. Cantus explores the transport listeners to 18th-century varied collection includes carols from all authentic performance of this work, just musical traditions of Christmas from Leipzig for a traditional Christmas over the world, illustrating the amazing how the composer intended, look no the older, little known folk tunes in celebration. The tracks move from diversity of a genre originally rooted in the further. The ensemble performs the music original arrangements, to brand new the intimacy of “Süßer Trost” to the medieval dance. Songs are performed purely, without any liberties or additives, contemporary music. The music vast celebration of joy that is Bach’s here by a selection of the finest cathedral exactly how the music should be played if is presented both a cappella and Magnificat. The “Bach at Christmas” project is dedicated to the choirs. Songs include “The Holly & the the dancers were performing as well. in collaboration with instruments memory of philanthropist and patron of the Monteverdi choir, Ivy,” “Unto Us a Son is Born,” “Ding Dong, including the organ and the zither. Sir Ralph Kohn. Merrily on High,” and more! 2CD# PTE 5186091 $29.98 2CD# L2L 158SABD $34.98 CD# SDG 728 $18.98 CD# NXS 8557160 $12.98 10 11 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 Classical Holiday

Messiah, HWV 56 2-CD The Very Best of Christmas 2-CD Gregorian Chant: Christmas & Easter Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata With 40 or so complete recordings The Very Best of Christmas is a 2-disc This is the first modern release of This is the premiere recording of and countless discs of highlights, a collection of favorite classical music the 1955 Decca mono recordings J.S. Bach’s Magnificat heard for the Japanese performance of this most for the Christmas season. The first of Gregorian Chant for Christmas first time within its original liturgical beloved of English choral works may disc contains a collection of traditional and Easter by the Choir of the context, alongside the beautiful seem an unlikely contender. Yet the Bach carols and choral music by a range of Monks of the Abbey of Saint Pierre Christmas Cantata. Dunedin Consort Collegium Japan has already established popular composers, united by the theme de Solesmes. With notes by the recreates Bach’s first Christmas at itself as one of the most interesting period of “The Christmas Story.” Disc two is a leading expert in Gregorian Chant Leipzig (Vespers in the Nikolaikirche, ensembles specializing in Baroque music, delicious assortment of instrumental and recordings, Father Jerome F. Weber, 25 December 1723); the recording and this account has much to recommend orchestral music, united by the theme this atmospheric album will appeal to opens with a Gabrieli motet and it, not least Suzuki’s obvious affection for the piece. By pitting of “The Christmas Season,” featuring scholars and enthusiasts alike. includes organ preludes and a innocence against experience, Suzuki has achieved a particularly winter classics, beloved ballet music, and CD# GUI 3503 $10.98 seasonal congregational chorale. moving account. – BBC Music Magazine sleigh rides! CD# LINN 469 $19.98 2CD# BIS 891 $39.98 2CD# NXS 8570344 $24.98 Joy to the World: Famous Christmas Songs John Rutter: Christmas Album Telemann: Christmas Cantatas Christmas carols are indeed “Over the years John Rutter’s was a prolific composer by all accounts, and was highly regarded for his church compositions, numerous, ranging from church Christmas recordings with his ranging from small cantatas to large-scale works for soloists, chorus and orchestra. He wrote a number of cantatas, hymns from the Middle Ages to outstanding Cambridge Singers have four of which are featured on this release. Soprano , alto Britta Schwarz, tenor Wilfried Jochens and children’s songs and pastoral become essential components of bass Dirk Schmidt present a program of cantatas written for the Advent season, including “Saget der Tochter Zion,” pieces. The Chor des Bayerischen holiday tradition for choral music fans “Saget den verzagten Herzen,” and more. Rundfunks and the Munich around the world... The selections CD# CPO 999515 $16.98 Rundfunkorchester present this focus on Rutter’s own compositions, album of festive Christmas music, with a sprinkling of his arrangements containing a compilation of all kinds of traditional carols organized into Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker – arranged for Dresden Passion 2-CD of different carols, as well as compositions by Vivaldi, Bach, a thematically grouped program – Prologue, The Christmas Brass Septet Handel, Mendelssohn and Berlioz. Whether popular, traditional, Story, Christmas Night, Christmas reflections, Christmas Joy, For several years, the Cappella sophisticated, or closer to pop music, the songs and the and Epilogue – the latter consisting of a lovely setting of “Silent Brass instruments are a vital part of Sagittariana Dresden has stood for melodies radiate all the power and the charm of Advent and Night,” made for a 1988 BBC television production. the festive fabric of Christmas, and period performance at the highest Christmas. – Classics Today (10/10) level as well as sophisticated program Tchaikovsky’s iconic ballet The Nutcracker CD# BRK 900521 $16.98 is made even more joyful with the concepts. Dresden Passion is yet another CD# COL 510 $14.98 brassy brilliance of Septura. Narrated remarkable dramaturgy presented by Bach: Advent & Christmas Cantatas 6-CD Set by preeminent actor Derek Jacobi, the ensemble’s artistic director, Norbert Handel: Messiah 2-CD The Nutcracker is set on Christmas Schuster: Marco Gioseppe Peranda’s A wonderful digest of Bach’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Eve, with music both rapturous and rendition of the Gospel of Mark is unparalleled achievement in this and Chamber Choir present an fantastical. It tells the story of how young the centrepiece of this recording. However, it is complemented by area. The soloists are generally intimate and stirring performance Clara’s favorite present, a nutcracker shaped like a little man, turns reflective figural music by Christoph Bernhard, Anton Colander, Johann distinguished, and sometimes of Handel’s Messiah. This 2-CD into a handsome prince at midnight. Septura has been acclaimed by Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz and Samuel Seidel. excellent – tenor recording of the full score on period Brass Band World for its ‘stylistic perfection’ and ‘beautifully portrayed and soprano Arleen Augér both 2CD# RDAU 612122 $29.98 instruments features a stellar cast artistry.’ give object lessons in Bach style... of soloists including Karina Gauvin, Rilling’s performances... are neatly CD# NXS 8574157 $12.98 Simphonies des noëls Robin Blaze, Rufus Müller and Brett tailored and naturally benevolent in Polegatol. Tafelmusik presents this baroque masterpiece Handel’s Messiah 2-CD This album is a reissue of Simphonies nature, buoyant with the wholesomeness and warmth that this with the spirit and vitality of Handel’s own 18th-century great music so frequently emanates. There is simply no better Handel’s Messiah is already very des noëls, the first recording with Les productions. A perennial favorite with audiences and critics Violons du Roy on the ATMA Classique way of celebrating a musical Christmas. well-represented on the market, yet alike, Tafelmusik’s Messiah has garnered glowing reviews year – BBC Music Magazine this is a very special version, carefully label. Plain-chant has figured prominently after year. crafted by a Basel-based selection of in the church’s Christmas celebrations 6CD# HAN 98551 $22.98 since the Middle Ages. Simphonies 2CD# TAFL 1016 $24.98 fine vocal soloists and instrumentalists Navidad Ibérica: Spanish Christmas Music from the world-famous Schola Cantorum des noëls features instrumental works Basiliensis. Under the fine direction celebrating the nativity by composers The Baroque Christmas Album The musicians of the Ensemble of Daniela Dolci, singers Miriam from France, Italy and Germany. Les Corund have made names for Feuersinger, Flavio Ferri-Benedeti, Dino Luthy and Raitis Grigalis join Violons du Roy is at the heart of the music scene in Quebec City and Experience as it themselves as soloists as well the ensemble Musica Fiorita for a moving studio recording. All in all, is a regular feature on the Montreal cultural calendar. was celebrated more than 250 as members of this ensemble. a welcome breath of fresh air for one of the finest compositions of all CD# ATMA 22742 $16.98 years ago with 18 glorious tracks Together, they are known for the time. from Sir , Paul color, brilliance, purity, and crystalline McCreesh, and Marc 2CD# PAN 10351 $19.98 precision. On this release, they Robert Shaw: Songs of Angels-Hymns & Minkowski, performing the best present a program of Spanish Imagine Christmas Carols of Baroque composers Giovanni Christmas music and Villancicos Gabrieli, Praetorius, Schütz, Corelli, from the Renaissance period. Simplicity is an underrated avenue This Robert Shaw release is the Charpentier, and Bach! when it comes to holiday releases, so perfect follow-up to The Many Moods The ensemble is conducted by with Imagine Christmas, the entries by of Christmas. Featuring superb CD# DGG B000527102 $18.98 Stephen Smith. Irina Muresanu & Matei Varga, Bruce performances the famous Robert Shaw CD# SUIN 93249 $16.98 Levingston, Kathryn Bates, and Skylark Chorale, the 29 carols are heard in Verbum Caro Factum Est – A Christmas Vocal Ensemble are a breath of proverbial delightful arrangements by Alice Parker A Vaughan Williams Christmas Greeting SACD fresh air. Muresanu’s seductive playing and Robert Shaw. You’ll hear “God Rest Vaughan Williams was one of the is a glimpse into the golden age of violin You Merry, Gentlemen,” “Angels We Have Bach Collegium Japan and foremost collectors of folk songs technique – lush vibrato and delicious Heard on High,” “Away in a Manger,” Masaaki Suzuki have sung of the during the early 1900s. He collected sentimentality, which infuses “White Christmas” with every bit of “Mary Had a Baby,” and many more lovely carols that still speak wonders of Christmas a number many traditional Christmas carols as nostalgia one could hope for. directly to us with their message of hope and joy. of times, in Bach’s cantatas and well. This collection is of carols as CD# SUIN 92216 $14.98 CD# TLC 80377 $12.98 Christmas Oratorio as well as in he arranged them, thus presenting Handel’s Messiah. Here, instead, his view of Christmas in the first half A Baroque Christmas 4-CD Set we hear the choir a cappella in of the 20th-century. 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This 4-disc boxed set features performances of Bach’s ensemble’s founder and director, has selected some of the Male Voices.” They are performed by the outstanding Chapel Christmas Oratorio led by René Jacobs and Charpentier’s Pastorale de Noël led by Sébastien Daucé, alongside works best-loved songs of Christmas, such as “Adeste Fideles” and Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea under the directorship of by Corelli, Buxtehude, Balbastre and more. “Silent Night,” as well as less familiar hymns, arranging them William Vann. especially for these singers. 4CD# HAR 2908984 $22.98 CD# ALBN 035 $18.98 CD# BIS 2291 $19.98 12 13 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 B ox Sets

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Organ Music for Christmas Nutcracker for Solo Piano SACD The French word ‘noël’ is closely associated Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished with the organ; this new recording from the young pianist as a concerto soloist, chamber Breton organist Christian Lambour features , recitalist and composer. In March such works from the 17th–20th century. The 2015, Stewart played all 32 Beethoven album, recorded on the historic organ of the sonatas in recital, in a single day, in former Benedictine Abbey of Neu St. Johann TX. Mr. Goodyear’s recording of in Switzerland, takes in some of France’s Tchaikovsky’s “First Piano Concerto” and most assured writers for the instrument, Grieg’s “Piano Concerto,” with the Czech from well-known figures such as Franck and National Symphony under Stanislav Bogunia, Fritz Reiner: Complete Sir : György Sandor: Théodore Dubois to lesser-known names like Michel Corrette and Alexis was released to critical acclaim on the Columbia Collection 14-CD Set Complete RCA & Columbia Complete Columbia Album Chauvet. Mr. Lambour’s recital is rounded off with movements from Boëly’s Steinway and Sons label in 2014. 14CD# SBMG 19075936772 Albums 6-CD Set Collection 17-CD Set “Messe du jour de Noël,” published in 1842 for performance on Christmas CD# STEI S30040 $19.98 $59.98 6CD# SBMG 19075988382 17CD# SBMG 19075938822 Day. $49.98 $72.98 CD# BLC 94101 $12.98 Le Premier Noël Quebec star opera tenor Marc Hervieux presents this homage to traditional French Christmas carols, using familiar, old arrangements. The traditional selection of carols and anthems includes “Venez, divin Messie” and “Angels We Have Heard on High,” as well as César Franck’s Panis Angelicus. The rich-sounding Victorian Casavant organ at the Église Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus and the Disciples de Massenet choir are excellent backup to Hervieux’s glorious voice. CD# ATMA 22619 $16.98

Zubin Mehta: Glenn Gould: Issac Stern: Complete Christmas Organ Music How Great Our Joy! Christmas Organ Music Complete Columbia Albums The Bach Box 30-CD Set Columbia Analogue A mix of traditional and more modern Carson Cooman is many things musical – 97-CD/DVD Set 30CD# SBMG 19439753902 Recordings 75-CD Set pieces are featured in this collection of solo organist and composer in Residence at the 97CD/DVD# SBMG 9075937662 $89.98 75CD# SNYC 19439724252 Christmas organ works from Kevin Bowyer, Memorial Church, concert organist, and $221.98 $219.98 performing at the organ in Chichester above all a highly prolific composer of music Cathedral in West Sussex, UK. This is in a wide variety of genres, from orchestral wonderful music, perfect for relaxing, to song. His organ compositions come listening to while preparing for holiday in many styles, from liturgical models, to get-togethers, as background music during substantial secular pieces such as his organ such get-togethers, or to reacquaint oneself symphonies, preludes and fugues. Here with the music of the holiday season. are a fine set of fantasias on well-known seasonal tunes and some new CD# NIM 7711 $16.98 compositions, in fine style (and suitable for listening all year round.) Erik Simmons is a superb organist, making his 12th Cooman organ album for Divine Art. I’ll Be Home For The Holidays CD# DVT 25196 $17.98 Beethoven: Eileen Farrell: Fromm Music Foundation Following the great success of the Christmas Christmas at Steinway Hall Violin Sonatas 7-CD Set Complete Columbia Album 20th Century Composer release Home for the Holidays comes this 7CD# SBMG 19439701712 Collection 16-CD Set Series 10-CD Set second album featuring more of your favorite This release presents the sounds of $45.98 16CD# SBMG 19075991902 10CD# SBMG 19439715642 music for the holidays. Perfect for late Christmas on a Steinway piano – recorded $62.98 $47.98 evening hours by the fireplace, the intimate at Steinway Hall in New York City. Simon sounds of this album will bring a welcome Mulligan’s tasteful jazz arrangements are an calm to an all too busy and hectic holiday ideal accompaniment to the holiday season. season. British pianist Simon Mulligan has been described by The Times of London as ‘the CD# NXS 8554714 $12.98 most abundantly gifted of pianists’, by Yehudi Menuhin as ‘one of the finest pianists I have ever had the pleasure of performing with’ and Baroque Christmas in Versailles by Herbie Hancock as ‘phenomenal’. Christmas time would make sacred music CD# STEI 30053 $17.98 shined forth in monarchical France. The Christmas Piano Music : Bruno Walter: Kathleen Battle: Complete organists had free rein to improvise on Complete RCA & Columbia Complete Columbia Album Sony Recordings 10-CD Set the popular Nativity songs, which had A traditional Sussex carol says “On Christmas been known to all the faithful for centuries, night all Christians sing, to hear the news 10CD# SBMG 88985381362 Album Collection 18-CD Set Collection 77-CD Set and amateurs would swarm to churches the angels bring.” Sing they did, from the 18CD# SBMG 19439752272 77CD# SNYC 592324 $34.98 throughout Paris to hear the virtuoso works 14th-century onward, as many European $59.98 $221.98 of these masters! Here, finally gathered carols were composed between 1400 and together, are the most famous organ pieces 1700. During the 19th-century, many of these of Daquin, Corette, Dandrieu and Balbastre old songs were collected and published, and along with the melodies that inspired them, most survive into the present day. Pianist played by the skilled fingers of Gaetan Jarry Eteri Andjaparidzehas performs some of the at the Grand Orgue of the Royal Chapel of finest examples of piano music written for the Versailles. Christmas season on this holiday release. CD# CHUV 025 $18.98 CD# NXS 8553461 $12.98 A Brass Organ Christmas in Grace Cathedral This breathtaking program was recorded in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral and features esteemed organist John Fenstermaker Juilliard String Quartet: Alexander Brailowsky Igor Levit: alongside the celebrated Bay Brass. The acoustics of the church perfectly enhance the magnificence of the music. Selected Beethoven String plays Chopin 8-CD Set Beethoven-Complete Piano carols include “Joy to the World,” “Greensleeves,” “The Christmas Nightingale,” “Silent Night,” and many more. Quartets 9-CD Set 8CD# SBMG 88985499992 Sonatas 9-CD Set 9CD# SBMG 19075992332 $41.98 9CD# SBMG 19075843182 $47.98 $79.98 CD# GTHC 49120 $16.98 16 17 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 Choral Holiday Music

Christmas With the Robert Shaw Chorale Christmas with the Westminster Choir Christmas with the Vienna Boys Choir 2-CD Now May We Singen: Music for Advent & 2-CD Set This is the re-issue of the 1979 recording For over 500 years the Vienna Boys’ Christmas Founded in New York City in 1948, the Robert Christmas with the Westminster Choir. It Choir has been a living tradition. Since The Choir of Westminster School blends Shaw Chorale took many forms over the features some of the most-loved Christmas their beginning, the choir has worked with the ancient and modern in this festive years, starring in national and international carols and songs performed by one of composers such as Mozart, Schubert collection of choral works, drawing tours and several RCA Victor recordings. America’s greatest choirs. Musical America’s and Bruckner. Capriccio presents this on Advent and Christmas music by This album features all three of the group’s 2004 Conductor of the Year Joseph 2-disc set of what the choir is best known composers including Judith Weir, James Christmas albums, including Christmas Flummerfelt and his musical artistry have for, traditional Christmas songs. Tracks MacMillan, , Roxanna Hymns and Carols, which was certified gold been acclaimed in the world’s finest concert include “The First Noel,” “Adeste Fideles,” Panufnik and Ralph Vaughan Williams. in 1964 by the Recording Industry Association halls for many years. He was hailed by “Joy To The World,” “Once in David’s With a national reputation for excellence, of America. Bernstein as “the world’s greatest choral conductor.” Maestro Flummerfelt Royal City,” “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht,” the Choir of Westminster school gives is one of 3 artistic directors for the Spoleto Festival USA, and was for many and more. 2CD# RCAI 1217 $29.98 annual concerts at the Barbican and performs regularly at venues years Maestro del coro for the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. 2CD# CAP 5160 $16.98 including Westminster Abbey, St John’s Smith Square and the Houses Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Angels Among Us CD# WSTM 0691 $16.98 of Parliament. Christmas with St. John’s The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square join CD# SIG 595 $17.98 The Choir of St. John’s College along vocalist Kristin Chenoweth for a Christmas Advent Procession: The Great “O” Antiphons Elora Festival Singers: The Mystery of performance before a combined audience of with their director Andrew Nathsingha Created by Peter Hallock, the Advent liturgy 60,000.This show sparkles with excitement present this collection of outstanding Christmas presented on this release combines readings, Christmas Music. Opening the album as Kristin’s renditions of Christmas classics The Elora Festival Singers were founded hymns, chants, and anthems to create a is a work commissioned by former St. breathe new life into old favorites. Her stage by artistic director Noel Edison in 1980. perfectly rounded program for the Holiday John’s organ scholar Stephen Cleobury: presence and world-class vocal ability shine The group has been nominated for both season. The Compline men’s choir is joined “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott’s. in perfect complement to the 360-member GRAMMY and Juno awards, and is well by the mixed choir of St. Mark’s Cathedral, Two works commissioned by the choir choir and full orchestra backing her up. known for their warm sound and clear Seattle, Washington. Mel Butler and Roger are featured, Michael Finnissy’s “John With holiday songs, choruses, dancing, textures. This 21-track album features Sherman accompany the choirs on the organ. The Baptist,” and Judith Bingham’s “The Clouded Heaven.” The bell-ringing, and seasonal orchestral favorites, beautiful choral Christmas works, Choir of St. John’s College is one of the finest choral ensembles of this inspiring concert is a celebration of the including “Silent Night,” “Adeste Fidelis,” CD# LFT 1020 $16.98 men and boys, and have been recognized for their distinctive sound season unlike any other. “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,” and more. and as a cornerstone of the English choral music tradition since the CD# MRMT 5228832 $16.98 17th-century. CD# NXS 8554179 $12.98 Christmas With the Cincinnati May John Rutter: A Christmas Festival Festival Chorus CD# SIG 458 $17.98 Tallis: Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal Seasoned fans of earlier releases, as The Cincinnati May Festival Chorus, the The Wonder of Christmas The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, well as people new to Rutter and the Hampton Court Palace made their official chorus of the Cincinnati Symphony The Toronto-based Elora Festival Cambridge Singers will find much to enjoy Resonus Classics debut with this album Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops, performs a Singers, conducted by their founder and in A Christmas Festival. For new listeners, of works for lower voices by Thomas capella traditional Christmas carols under the internationally acclaimed director Noel the beauty will be astounding. For longtime Tallis – himself a Gentleman of the direction of Robert Porco. The May Festival Edison, are one of the most exciting of fans, it has everything that made his earlier Tudor Chapel Royal serving under four Chorus has earned acclaim locally, nationally, contemporary choirs. With this release, releases with both Clare College and the monarchs. Recorded in the impressive and internationally for its musicality, vast they turn to the art of the , Cambridge Singers quality recordings but surroundings of the Chapel Royal range of repertoire and sheer power of sound. a genre covering a variety of styles, both offers something different too. One noticeable where the choir are resident, this first The Chorus of 145 professionally trained popular and refined. The music ranges difference in this collection from earlier releases is the accompaniment of release with the ensemble presents works for four and seven voices singers is the core artistic element of the Cincinnati May Festival as well from much-loved settings to new works, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra which gives the orchestral arrangements including a reconstruction of Tallis’s “Missa Puer natus est nobis” as the official chorus of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati from polyphony to more straightforward a more fulsome sound. The majestic sound of the orchestra enhances the based on chant for Christmas Day, and the sumptuous “Suscipe Pops. Founded in 1873, the annual May Festival is the oldest, and one of the melodies, in a recital stretching from the vocal beauty of the Cambridge Singers. quaeso Domine.” most prestigious, choral festivals in the Western Hemisphere. In this release, Middle Ages to the music of today. CD# COL 133 $16.98 the Chorus performs sublime a capella arrangements of traditional Christmas CD# REOA 10229 $16.98 hymns and carols. CD# NXS 8573421 $12.98 Angel Voices: Boy’s Choir Celebration 3-CD Christmas with Septura CD# CSOM 012 $16.98 Mormon Tabernacle Choir: O Come Little Here’s a very nice set of three CDs With this recording Septura answers the Children devoted mostly to German music and question, “What if the greatest Christmas John Rutter: A Song in Season O Come, Little Children features classic performed by the cream of German and music had been written for brass?” In Christmas songs beloved by children This major collection of choral music by Austrian boychoirs (or mixed choirs of arrangements that go far beyond Yuletide and adults everywhere. Performed by John Rutter features a host of previously men or youths plus boys). Name your clichés, Septura has carefully crafted a the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle unrecorded works in glittering performances favorite Teutonic choir that contains program that explores virtuosity and festive Choir, accompanied by the Orchestra by the Cambridge Singers and the Royal boys, and you’ll no doubt find it here. celebration in pieces such as the Christmas at Temple Square, and featuring the Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by the The performances, as you would expect Suite with music by J.S. Bach, and rapturous singularly beautiful voice of acclaimed composer, A Song in Season ranges across with such esteemed choirs at work, serenity from the likes of Robert Parson’s enor Rolando Villazon, this album takes the church’s year, incorporating music for are excellent; recording ambiences beautiful “Ave Maria”. Septura pushes the listener on a joyful journey through Christmas, , Pentecost, Easter and and quality are quite variable, but its colors and combinations to the limit in timeless classics that celebrate the season. Rolando’s powerful tenor Harvest. The album of anthems and canticles generally fine. re-imagining this varied selection of sublime voice shines on classic carols “,” “Deck the Hall,” promises to delight both seasoned Rutter Christmas music from the past 450 years. and “We Three Kings.” This album will whisk you away to once again 3CD# CAP 7069 $22.98 followers and new listeners. CD# NXS 8573719 $12.98 see the childlike wonder of Christmas. CD# COL 135 $16.98 A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels On High CD# MRMT 5186350 $16.98 In this beautifully chosen program of Hodie! Choral Works Celebraton of Christmas: Noel Christmas with the Washington Chorus mostly a cappella arrangements, Robert In this live recording – the second in The Dale Shaw and the Robert Shaw Chamber Recorded live on 23 December 2009, this Warland Live series – selected works of two Each Christmas season at Brigham Singers deliver the Christmas story in delightful album presents some of the 20th-century composers, one British and the Young University over 500 vocalists and tones of gentle and moving splendor. best loved Christmas music, including other American, are performed with exquisite instrumentalists celebrate the season in song. The carols and sacred settings recorded “Angels We Have Heard On High,” “O choral acumen. The program consists of Handpicked from the largest private student here are all of an intimate sort, and the Come All Ye Faithful,” “Un Flambeau,” ’s acclaimed ‘A Ceremony body in the country, these students comprise rapturous, gently expressive realizations “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “Still of Carols’ and Daniel Pinkham’s ‘Christmas four nationally and internationally acclaimed Shaw and his singers give them prove Still Still,” “Joy To The World,” “The Cantata’ with brass and organ. In addition, choirs and the highly praised Philharmonic unfailingly appealing. Particularly moving First Nowell,” “Sing We To This Merry Pinkham’s rarely performed ‘Company at Orchestra. The music presented here was is the newest work on the disc, a setting Company,” “O Come O Come Emmanuel,” “Choral Fanfare: Gloria the Creche’ is included with four other Christmas works. The distinguished recorded during the live performances of the of “O magnum mysterium” by the In Excelsis Deo,” “Good King Wenceslas,” “Nino Lindo,” and the career of choral composer and conductor Dale Warland spans more than six December 2016 and 2017 Celebration of American composer . ‘Hallellujah’ Chorus from Messiah. decades and has made a profound contribution to the music of our time. Christmas concerts. CD# TLC 80461 $12.98 CD# GTHC 49317 $18.98 CD# TANT 0217UAW $16.98 CD# SUIN 92117 $16.98

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On Christmas Night SACD John Tavener: Ex Maria Virgine On Christmas Night Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Christmas A joyous celebration of music for Admired for the sheer beauty of This beautiful, 17-track album comes from The 325-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir the festive season! This disc was his meditative and mystical music, the esteemed Choir of Magdalen College, is one of the best-known, best-loved recorded in the College Chapel in full John Tavener writes of his Ex Maria Oxford – one of the most celebrated musical organizations in the world. Here surround-sound, and recreates to a Virgine, which was dedicated to choral groups in the UK. For this release, they perform superb new arrangements spectacular degree the experience HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH the ensemble explores 20th-century of 16 favorite carols, accompanied by of listening to the Choir perform in the Duchess of Cornwall in joyful English carol repertoire, and presents the newly-formed Orchestra at Temple the Chapel. The Choir of St John’s celebration of their marriage: “I have a program of well-loved standards and Square. Refresh your holiday music College, established in the 1670s, is set both familiar and less well known innovative choral pieces. Featured tracks library with this magnificent collection today one of the finest college choirs texts, and linked them with an expanding and contracting include “People Look East,” “A Babe is of Christmas favorites including “What in the world, known and loved by phrase ‘Ex Maria Virgine.’ ” The other, mainly unaccompanied Born,” “In the Bleak Midwinter,” “A Hymn Child Is This?” “The First Noel,” “Joy to the World,” “Hark, The Herald millions. works reveal Tavener’s response to various poetic texts that to the Virgin,” and more. Angels Sing,” “,” “I Wonder as I Wander,” a lovely a CD# CHA 5096 $19.98 also praise the Virgin Mary. 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Two of John Rutter’s most their beautiful sounds filling the air with of Advent, ranging from Tomás Luis de the honest clarity and thoughtful exquisite works are complemented tranquillity and calm. Tracks include Victoria and William Byrd, Johannes artistry of The Crossing. In the by orchestral versions of well-loved “,” “Kyrie Deus Creator,” Brahms and , to world premiere recording of James traditional fare. From the ecstatic “Celeste Organum,” “Credo,” “Gloria in composers of the present. Jan Wilke MacMillan’s dramatic motet “Alpha brass fanfares that introduce “O Excelsis,” and more. and Dominik Dieterle are the youngest and Omega,” the choir soars and celebrates, while in the Come, All Ye Faithful” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” CD# GOM 1042 $16.98 members of an illustrious group that contemplative works of Andrew Gant, Edwin Fissinger, and to the intimate performances of Elizabeth Poston’s beautiful includes Bob Chilcott, Morten Lauridsen, and Arvo Pärt. 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From the rich archives of Berlin Classics music’s most distinctive and cathedral choir comes Starring: Included are first international commercial comes this 1974 recording of Bach’s recognizable voices, writing Christmas, an album of Christmas recordings of works by Craig Phillips, 1734 Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV248. deeply felt compositions of instant standards that is anything but. The Charles Beaudrot, Frank Boles, Stephen A re-telling of the Christmas story, the magnetism and lyrical intensity 16-tracks include time-honored Paulus, and Howard Helvey. Tracks work has become one of the most inspired by a strong Greek Orthodox classics like “Once in Royal David’s include “Away In a Manger,” “Christmas popular choral compositions of all time faith. At the very heart of his work is City,” “In dulci Jubilo,” “Coventry Day,” “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” “In dulci and is a regular fixture in the church and sacred choral music, a genre in which Carol,” and others. The Winchester jubilo,” and more. concert calendars all over the world. A Tavener has established considerable Cathedral Choir is an internationally CD# GTHC 49323 $18.98 non-historically informed performance fame with contemporary classics such as “The Lamb” and acclaimed ensemble which performs utilizing traditional forces, the recording features the superb voices of “Hymns for the Mother of God” as well as the elegiac “Song at eight Cathedral services each In Dulci Jubilo: Choral Music for Advent & Arleen Auger, Peter Schreier, Annelies Burmeister, and the for Athene,” “Svyati, for cello and chorus,” takes the form of a week in addition to recording and famous Dresdner Kreuzchor and Dresdner Philharmonie, conducted musical incantation against the hushed voices of the choir. touring. Christmas by Martin Flamig. CD# NXS 8555256 $12.98 CD# PTE 5186198 $19.98 Harmonia Sacra was formed by Peter 3CD# BLC 95019 $17.98 Leech in the Summer of 2009. On Christmas With True Concord: Carols Christmas at America’s First Cathedral Sing We Merrily: Choral Concert in the same year they Holiday musical treasures newly presented their first concert at the church Tom Hall leads the choral ensembles of “Accomplished church music imagined! Every December, True of St. Thomas the Martyr in Bristol, Baltimore Choral Arts with orchestra in organizations like St. John’s help to Concord presents its popular entitled Advent Reflections. The event has this Christmas program featuring works preserve the traditions of the choral “Lessons and ” since become a permanent and popular by African-American composers Dr. art in our country… Make a joyful concerts in the Tucson area. Unique musical feature of the pre-Christmas Rosephayne Powell and James Lee III. noise!” So wrote American Record in the local milieu of seasonal season in that city. 2019 marked the Recorded in the resonant acoustics of Guide about the present Christmas offerings, the focus is on sacred choir’s 10th anniversary, so this release America’s first cathedral, the Baltimore release from St. John’s Cathedral Christmas carols. Christmas With was created to celebrate a decade Basilica. Dr. Powell brings her Southern in Denver, Colorado. Songs include True Concord – Carols in the of choral music-making in southwest traditions and childhood memories of joyously celebrating Christmas to “Greater Love Hath No Man,” American Voice is the group’s second England (and much further afield), and to her musical compositions. Truly a to be savored! “Jubilate Deo,” “The Lord is My album on Reference Recordings. represent the diverse repertoire of Advent Light,” “Epiphany Alleluias,” “Advent Reflections concerts. CD# GTHC 49277 $16.98 CD# REF 734 $16.98 Procession,” and more. CD# NIM 6391 $14.98 Westminster Concert Bell Choir: An English CD# DEL 3125 $16.98 A Christmas Choral Spectacular Christmas Bring a touch of glamour to your Christmas Holidays An English Christmas, the new CD Pacific Chorale: holiday season with A Christmas The Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, release from Westminster Choir College Choral Spectacular ! This 13-track The Pacific Chorale, an illustrious under the direction of Earl Rivers, Recordings, is the perfect way to “ring release features Peter Breiner’s 160-voice choir led here by Artistic present a program of choral music for the in the holidays” with the joyous sounds lavish arrangements for choir and Director John Alexander, presents Christmas season, spotlighting American of Christmas, the album’s arrangements orchestra, which add a fresh twist this program of favorite Christmas and European 20th-century composers. of holiday favorites being performed on to these familiar melodies. Tracks music. Advent classics are heard Founded in 1979, for over 30 years VAE the world’s largest range of handbells. include “Ding Dong! Merrily On here alongside modern carols on this has brought the power of spectacular, The Westminster Concert Bell Choir High,” “Deck the Halls,” “O Little 19-track release, with songs including powerful and thrilling choral performances is considered to be America’s leading Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming,” to audiences of all generations. Tracks handbell ensemble. Hailed for its virtuosity, the Westminster Concert and Breiner’s original works, “Puer “Ave Maria,” “Have Yourself a Merry include “Go Tell It On The Mountain,” Bell Choir performs on the largest range of handbells in the world. nobis nascitur,” and “Quem pastores ,” “,” “Christmas Bells,” “Mary Had a Baby,” The choir has appeared on Public Television’s Mister Rogers’ laudavere.” and more. “The Holly & the Ivy,” and more! Neighborhood and several holiday broadcasts of NBC’s Today Show. 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Gothic Voices: Nowell Synge We Bothe A Medieval Christmas Cor Europae: Christmas in Medieval Medieval Carols

Al and Som The mixed-voice choir Sospiri present this rich Prague has always been regarded as Here we are presented with a magnificent Gothic Voices’ reputation for the originality of its and varied survey of medieval Christmas music. one of the most beautiful cities in the collection of English carols from the programming is cemented with its first recording of This album brings together many works, from world. The name ‘Cor Europae’ (Heart of 15th-century, when the carol tradition medieval Christmas music, in which Julian Podger the famous “Coventry Carol” and “There is No Europe) probably dates from the country’s was just beginning to evolve. None of reimagines a 15th-century carol evening. Mirroring Rose” to some of the less well-known works early history, in the 13th-century, when the carols on this release is ascribed the modern practice of performing mostly music such as “Synge We to this Mery Cumpane” and the Kingdom of Bohemia stretched from to a specific poet or composer. They from the preceding centuries alongside some “Hayl, Mary, Ful of Grace.” In addition there are the Baltic to the Mediterranean. This is a consist of alternating verses and refrains, contemporary repertoire, the program includes new arrangements of some well-known medieval reconstruction of the liturgy of the Feast and the language is a mixture of Latin late medieval English carols, chant, mono and Christmas tunes by William Lyons. He and his of the Nativity as it was celebrated there, and English. The 15 tracks include both sacred carols, as well as polyphonic songs and motets for the Advent colleague Nicholas Perry play several different instruments, including medieval with organa and tropes in the tradition of 12th-century music, at a time secular tunes which would have accompanied banquets and holiday and Christmas season, focusing on Mary, her bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, recorder and shawm, adding to the cheerful melodies on when the new Ars Nova style was flourishing elsewhere in Europe. It celebrations. is this music that the wonderful voices of the Tiburtina Ensemble bring Annunciation and the birth of Jesus. this recording. CD# NXS 8550751 $12.98 to life for us. CD# LINN 591 $18.98 CD# GOM 1203 $16.98 CD# RCR 410 $18.98 In Dulci Jubilo German Baroque Sacred Music: Christmas 7-CD Set Christmas carols are such an essential This second set of Les Pleiades is again devoted to the German Baroque religious repertoire. Focusing on the Nativity repertoire, it extends On the Way to Bethlehem part of the Advent and Christmas season that one might almost think they have from the early 17th-century to the generation of Bach: Schütz’s Christmas Oratorio, Yuletide cantatas by Christoph Graupner, Scheidt, Selle, In the Medieval era, religious pilgrimages existed since the birth of Christianity. Tunder, Lubeck, Buxtehude, Bruhns and more, recorded by world-class artists. Also in this set one finds the evocation of Nativity scenes, from were common, and one of the They were by no means common from the Annunciation up to the Presentation in the Temple, as well as the reconstruction of a Lutheran Christmas service. most-visited sites was Bethlehem, the the beginning, as the earliest examples of birthplace of Jesus. Many making these 7CD# RCR 349 $49.98 Christmas carols are written either in Latin journeys would have timed their visit or a combination of Latin and German. with Christmas. On this 15-track release, Several of them are familiar to everyone: “In dulci jubilo” can be Ensemble Oni Wytars and Ensemble traced back to approximately 1335. Several other songs from existing Unicorn present Medieval songs that In Dulci Jubilo: Music for the Christmas Christmas Goes Baroque, Vol. 1 collections have been known for centuries, although not always would have been heard as these early Here are 31 Christmas carol favorites originally in German, such as the wonderfully mystical Es kommt ein Season SACD travelers made their way toward the With evocative works by the Baroque master performed in the styles of Bach, Handel, Schiff geladen (15th century). holy sites. Dietrich Buxtehude and the circle of 17th-century Vivaldi and more! Conductor Peter Breiner CD# CVEL 41310 $18.98 northern German composers around him, Paul leads the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra CD# NXS 8553132 $12.98 Hillier conducts his GRAMMY Award-winning through two delightful CD’s performing ensemble Theatre of Voices in a stimulating Baroque versions of well-known Christmas Symphonies Des Noëls A Tudor Christmas addition to the traditional Christmas repertoire. songs. Volume 1 features classic like “Jingle Michel Corrette was an organist and a Imagine yourself in the fine surroundings Theatre of Voices, widely recognized as one of Bells,” “We Wish You A Merry Christmas,” prolific composer who wrote pieces that of the Great Hall of Christ Church, with a the world’s foremost vocal groups, was founded “The First Noel,” “O Tannenbaum” and more, can be categorized as “light music.” This programme of Tudor sacred and secular by Paul Hillier in 1990 and re-established in while Volume 2 includes more beloved songs release features his Symphonies des music including music by Henry VIII, one Denmark when he moved to that country in 2004. The group presents a wide range like “Away In A Manger,” “Deck the Halls,” “O Noëls, and his Concertos Comiques. of Christ Church’s founders, and choral of contemporary music, often juxtaposed with elements of early music. Come, O Come, Emannuel,” “Angels We Have The Symphonies des Noëls are built works by Taverner and others associated Heard on High,” “White Christmas” and more. Both are delightful releases that you’ll CD# DACO 6220661 $14.98 with an impeccable understanding of with Christ Church during its first century. love hearing through the holidays and all year round! compositional structure, short catchy Tracks include “While Shepherds The Waverly Consort: A Renaissance CD# NXS 8550301 $12.98 motifs, and quotes of traditional Christmas Watched,” “Coventry Carol,” “Consort,” Christmas Christmas Goes Baroque Vol. 2 carols. The pieces are performed here “Ave Maria,” “Sweet Was the Song,” Following The Sixteen’s hugely successful album, beautifully by Arion ensemble. “Hosanna to the Son of David,” and more. CD# NXS 8550670 $12.98 Song of the Nativity, which featured Christmas CD# EMDC 7768 $16.98 CD# GOM 1098 $16.98 music from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, this A Baroque Christmas 3-CD Set seasonal offering explores a stunning selection The celebration of the Nativity has always been a of festive works from the Renaissance. The source of inspiration for composers. The different Sixteen captures the joy and sincerity of the most elements of the evangelical narrative evoke Gregorian Chant wonderful of seasons, from the joyous simplicity numerous images: tender feelings before the Baby of plainsong chants “Resonemus laudibus” and Ave Maria: Gregorian Chant Jesus; the gentleness of his mother, the Virgin The Chants of Christmas “Veni, veni Emmanuel” to the shining purity of Mary; the procession of the three Wise Men; the With Ave Maria: Gregorian Chant, The earliest, purest music of the Church, Lassus’ polyphonic “Videntes stellam Magi” and Byrd’s jubilant “This day Christ was angelic choirs in Heaven; and these shepherds Seraphic Fire presents a definitive Gregorian chant brings a solemnity and born.” This album provides a perfect alternative to traditional carols for those looking gathered in the manger. All that appears in the survey of ancient, crystalline hymns an awe to the Christmas season in a for something a little different at Christmas. musical repertoire linked to this holiday, as well that are the foundation of the Western way no other music can. This Christmas CD# COO 16167 $18.98 as the presence of colorful instrumentations and themes connected to folk traditions. musical tradition. Focusing on Marian collection presents different masses that This sublime 37-track set brings together all these elements, drawn from the antiphons, Ave Maria spotlights the celebrate parts of the nativity story. From Christmas in Medieval England repertoires of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. calming, restorative chants side-by-side anticipation of Jesus’s birth, through Christmas in Medieval England allows listeners to 3CD# RCR 329 $44.98 with their eventual polyphonic the dawning of Christmas day. The 28 adaptations. This stunning recording by share the beauty, excitement, intensity and variety A Renaissance Christmas-Jaffe tracks have been taken from Gloriae dei found in a Blue Heron concert performance. It GRAMMY-nominated Seraphic Fire is an Cantores’s extensive recording catalog. expertly informed collection of some of includes plainchant, carols, and other music for Songs for the Advent season are some of the CD# PRCP 125 $16.98 Advent and Christmas from 15th-century. England. oldest in the Classical literature. This 12-track Western music’s purest compositions. It is comprised entirely of tracks recorded live release from the Waverly Consort and director CD# SRPH 12 $16.98 Gregorian Chant Christmas at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Michael Jaffee transports us back in time to This recording of Christmas chants in December 2013. The disc should find favor Christmas in Renaissance Europe. Works Gregorian Christmas 2-CD reflects the unmatched authenticity of with fans of Blue Heron’s first CD release, which by Renaissance trailblazers are featured, There are many words one could use Gregorian scholarship and performance contained music of 15th-century. France. “… one of the Boston music community’s including Gabrieli’s “O Magnum Mysterium,” and to describe this 2-disc set of Gregorian by the Monks of Solesmes. It includes indispensables.” – Boston Globe Praetorius’s “In Dulci Jubilo.” Chants for Christmas. Breathtaking, Introits, Graduals, Alleluias, Offertories, CD# BHRC 1006 $19.98 haunting, and mesmerizing are words Communions, Responses, Sequences, CD# CBSR 34554 $17.98 which come to mind. The first disc Hymns, and Tropes from the Midnight Thys Yool: Medieval Christmas is dedicated to chants celebrating Mass and Mass of the Day. “The Choir Advent – the four Sundays leading of the Monks of Solesmes remains a Thys Yool is a four-part program of medieval music in which four images central to the Christmas story are brought together. Beginning with up to Christmas. The second disc is highly respected and widely recognized performing ensemble, with a sometimes-melancholy picture of earth-bound humanity (“Winter and Wassail”), the record moves through nativity songs (“A Child Is Born”) devoted to celebrating Christmas. The an international following among devotees of Gregorian chant and towards the point at which Christian and pagan traditions come together in an adoration of the Virgin which is often expressed in passionate works are impeccably performed by religious music in general, just as the Abbey occupies a unique place language. A sense of human perceptions being profoundly altered by the events of Christmas is evoked in “Mary’s Son,” and “Goodwill CantArte Regensburg. in religious music scholarship and study.” – AllMusicGuide on Earth.” 2CD# CAP 7066 $16.98 CD# PRCP 821 $18.98 CD# NIM 7103 $14.98

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Christmas Brass 2 – is BAQ in Christmas Brass Festval 2-CD Town Schwerin Brass Collegium’s release The Elves’ have it! Merry Christmas “2” Christmas Brass Festival features you, from Brass Arts Quintet, because a mixture of well-known carols and Santa Claus is BAQ in Town ! This is the traditional arrangements of Renaissance second in the “Christmas Brass” series and Baroque seasonal music. Also from the acclaimed Brass Arts Quintet. included are tasteful transcriptions In volume one, there were “Suites and of popular works such as Corelli’s Treats” and now, there’s more new “Christmas Concerto” as well as interludes for the organ, played by the The Naxos Book of Carols Christmas Eve Worchester Cathedral Choir: great music, more new great charts and more “Joy to the World” created by this renowned organist Jan Ernst. CD# NXS 8557330 CD# NXS 8553789 Christmas Carols ensemble. 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The Great British Carol Collection 2-CD A Carol Symphony Gabriel’s Message: 1000 Years of Carols Essential Carols: The Very Best of King’s Hailed by Gramophone Magazine With the rise of public Christmas Drawn from a wonderful catalog of College Choir as “one of the world’s greatest concerts have come ‘sleigh-rides’ choral music for Christmas comes this The King’s College Choir, Cambridge is choirs,” the Choir of Trinity College, and pot-pourris of all shades and compilation from Naxos that features no stranger to Christmas carols. Over Cambridge is a leading exponent varieties. The first substantial beautiful and intimate singing! This the years the ensemble has performed of the British choral tradition. work based on Christmas carols album is certain to bring just the right these works thousands of times. The An essential for lovers of classic came in the mid-1920s in the form atmosphere of joy and tranquility that present 2-disc release is a showcase carols, this 2-CD collection of 28 of ‘A Carol Symphony’ by Victor your holiday season ultimately deserves. of recordings taken from the choir’s favorites, led by internationally Hely-Hutchinson. Each movement Songs include “Once in Royal David City,” extensive recording catalog and features renowned maestro Richard Marlow, is based on a single carol. The “In the Bleak Midwinter,” “The Holly and 39 of the most essential Christmas includes “Hark, the Herald Angels remaining works on the disc present the Ivy,” “Silent Night,” and more! carols. Songs include “O Little Town of Sing,” “Unto Us Is Born A Son,” some delightful Christmas orchestral CD# NXS 8554723 $12.98 Bethlehem,” “Away in a Manger,” “Hark! “Silent Night,” and a beautiful works by well-known English The Herald Angels Sing,” and more. rendition of “The First Nowell.” composers. Ceremony of Carols: Britten CD# DEC B000530202 $22.98 2CD# SNYC 88875037702 $16.98 CD# NXS 8557099 $12.98 Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols An American Christmas – Shape Note Carols tells the story of the Nativity in a unique Ceremony of Carols Christmas from Cambridge and beautiful manner. On this album, “Fascinating… not just for holiday the Regensburger Domspatzen led by Join the angelic voices of the New listening,” is how The News Tribune Familiar carols like “The Holly and Roland Büchner, brilliantly showcases London Children’s Choir for this celebrated this album from The Tudor the Ivy” mix with medieval Advent this work. Other pieces on this 28-track showcase of works by Benjamin Britten. Choir and director Doug Fullington. chants and 20th-century choral album include “Suite for Harp Op. 83” His “Friday Afternoons, Op. 7” opens the The songs on this release are rarely works on this 19-track Holiday album performed by Maria Graf, “A Hymn to the album, and is followed by a collection of recorded Christmas carols from from The Choir of Queens’ College, Virgin,” “Eight Folk Song Arrangements,” songs perfectly suited for children’s choir. New England and Appalachia, which Cambridge. Over a thousand years and more. Rounding out the release is Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, an 11-movement will bring a pleasant variety to your of Christmas tradition is brought CD# RDAU 6069 $18.98 holiday collection. The harmonies together here. 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In Christmas College London, which is repeated the series, is a unique collaboration join works as recent as Gabriel Jackson’s Carols Andrew Gant tells the story of over three nights to meet demand. between warm, resonate voices and “The Christ‑child.” Bob Chilcott magically some twenty carols, each accompanied This album offers a snapshot of one the bright, pure sound of the harp. superimposes traditional carols with by lyrics and music, unraveling such service, with its characteristic When listening to this album, you’ll entrancing new material, and no Vasari captivating – and often surprising tales. mix of plainchant, seasonal hymns feel as though you’re in an intimate Christmas would be complete without Discover how “Hark, the Herald Angels and polyphony old and new. The cathedral candlelight service on a some close harmony singing. Sing” came to replace “Hark, How All great O Antiphons (sung according to medieval Sarum snowy Christmas Eve. 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Carolae is a fusion of the great “Those familiar with the Gloriae Dei Christmas Sing-Along Christmas From Oxford – Carols at King’s College Cantores singers know what a sterling Cambridge and Princeton University ensemble they are; they deliver all the Some of the first songs that we learn The dreaming spires of Oxford at Chapel, with the “Missa Carolæ” goods here. The jazzy arrangement of as children include Christmas carols. Christmas evoke the timeless appeal at its heart. James Whitbourn’s ‘Deck the Hall’ really rocks! In these and This fun-filled album will brighten spirits of Christmas carols and music. love of medieval musical language all else, the singers exude joy and cheer young and old as you sing along with The Choir of Worcester College is reflected in his clever use of through artful, infectious performances the RCA Victor Singers while they presents this stirring collection of original melody with famous carols that are immaculate and engaging. perform traditional Christmas carols. The favorite carols and fine organ playing. such as “Noël Nouvelet,” combined The rich warmth of tone is balanced by ensemble is conducted by esteemed Well-known Christmas music familiar with skillful new arrangements of seasonal favorites such as vibrancy and energy. This is musical choir director Richard Westenberg, and from broadcasts such as ‘Nine “The Coventry Carol.” Whitbourn is a GRAMMY-nominated merriment that will bring great cheer at the organ accompaniment is perfectly Lessons and Carols’ are included, composer whose music is internationally admired for its direct Christmas time or any time!’’ matched to the ensemble. with tracks such as “In the Bleak Midwinter,” “The Sussex connection with performers and audiences. 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Christmas with Pavarotti 2-CD Seraphic Fire: Silent Night Emel Eley: Christmas Day Marie-Josée Lord: Amazing Grace The world’s best-loved tenor, Luciano Silent Night is the follow-up Baritone Elem Eley describes this Inspired by her love of and Pavarotti, had an indescribable Christmas recording to Seraphic very personal album in this way: “We traditional carols, Marie-Josée Lord impact on the world of classical Fire’s 2012 GRAMMY-nominated hope that Christmas Day may provide embarks on a mystical journey for her music and continues to appear at the A Seraphic Fire Christmas. This a measure of nostalgia, “Christmas very first Christmas album. Accompanied top of the classical charts after his recording includes four world magic,” and inspiring reflection on by the Ensemble Vocal Epiphanie, passing in 2007. Pavarotti is classical premiere recordings – “Gitanjali the true meaning of the season. My Lord sings such beloved gospel songs music’s most popular recording artist Chants,” “Little Child in a Manger,” own voice is complemented here by a as “Amazing Grace” and “Couldn’t of all time, and this 2-CD set features “Niño de Rosas” and “Silent Night”. host of outstanding artists – adult and Hear Nobody Pray.” Accompanied by 34 of his most popular Christmas Other tracks include “I Wonder As children’s choirs, orchestra, and brilliant Jean-Willy Kunz at the organ of the Saint- recordings. Tracks include both I Wander,” “Hymn to the Eternal instrumentalists. We offer you beloved carols, some composed or Jean-Baptiste church, Montreal and by violinist Antoine Bareil, Lord traditional and modern songs such as Flame,” “Little Child in a Manger,” newly-arranged especially for this project. 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Christian McBride: For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver : Valentine : Christmas Celebration CD Christian McBride solidifies his role Valentine, the debut recording of The All your favorites from the Irish as the champion of the past, present guitarist Bill Frisell’s trio with bassist celebrates Christmas Eve on the supergroup Celtic Woman are back to and future of jazz with his GRAMMY Thomas Morgan & drummer Rudy 6th of . The Feast Day is warm your holiday season. Featuring Award-winning Big Band’s new Royston is a wide-ranging 13 song celebrated by a solemn service – the singers Chloe Agnew, Orla Fallon, album in tribute to Jimmy Smith, set that mixes Frisell originals new & Christmas Vigil – with much singing , Meav Ni Mhaolchatha, and Wes Montgomery and Oliver Nelson. old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and abundant light processions. This fiddler Mairead Nesbitt, the album is Featuring special guests Joey and covers. 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