Monday, December 31, 2012


A WINTER'S SOLSTICE 2012
Windham Hill Artists

Windham Hill

THE TRUMPET CHILD
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

A WAVERLY CONSORT CHRISTMAS
Christmas From East Anglia To Appalachia
The Waverly Consort
Michael Jaffee, dir.

Virgin

CHRISTMAS
The Moosburg Gradual of 1360
Capella Antiqua München
Niederaltaicher Scholaren
Konrad Ruhland, dir.

SEON

Sunday, December 30, 2012


HI-FIDELITY HOLIDAY
A Holiday Compilation in Stereo
Various Artists

Starbucks/EMI

XMAS DELIGHTS!
The only listenable Christmas compilation...ever!
Various Artists
A: Santa side
1 The Philistines Jr. - Santa Was Seen
2 Asakawa Maki – Zenkasha No N'Mas
3 Elisa Gabbai – Winter in Canada
4 The Soulful Strings – Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies
5 Floral Pops 70 – Jingle Bells
6 Mystic Monks - Swinging Bells
7 Twice As Much feat. Vashti Bunyan - The Coldest Night of the Year
8 Dean Martin – The Things We Did Last Summer
9 Julie London – I'd Like You For Christmas
10 Kate Bush – December Will Be Magic Again
11 The Swingle Singers – Christmas Medley
12 The Torero Band – Once in Royal Davids City
13 Indo Jazzmen – Variations On a Christmas Theme
14 The Carpenters – O Come, O Come Emmanuel   

B: Jesus side
1 Lois Lynn – Every Christmas We Know
2 Peter, Paul & Mary - A'Soalin'
3 Joan Baez – The Little Drummer Boy
4 Don Amson – Shepherd Boy
5 The De Castro Singers - Snowbound for Christmas
6 Monica Lewis – The Christmas Song
7 Bing Crosby – Do You Hear What I Hear
8 Dinah Shore – The Coventry Carol
9 Fred Lowery – Silent Night
10 Shirley Collins – Down in Yon Forest
11 Bert Jansch – In the Bleak Midwinter
12 Ron Goodwin – The Christmas Tree
13 Mary Mayo – A King Without a Crown
14 The Retreat Singers – Virgin Mary Had a One Son
15 Steeleye Span – Gaudete
16 Unknown - Christmas Bells (1919)

Moahaha via ghostcapital

Saturday, December 29, 2012


PASTIME WITH GOOD COMPANY
Dulcimer Music for the Christmas Season
Featuring a Goodly Company of Dulcimer Players

Kicking Mule

KENTON'S CHRISTMAS
Stan Kenton
and his Orchestra

Creative World

THE CHARLIE BYRD CHRISTMAS ALBUM
Charlie Byrd

Concord

BETHLEHEM AFTER DARK
Butch Thompson
Laura Sewell

Daring Records

NOËLS
Chœur Pro Arte de Lausanne
André Charlet, dir.
Ensemble Terpsichore

Suisse Pro Arte

Friday, December 28, 2012


MERRY CHRISTMAS 2012
Various Artists

Possum Girl Products

A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Nonesuch

CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING
A Revels Celebration of the Winter Solstice
The Christmas Revels
John Langstaff, dir.

Revels Records

KENTUCKY CHRISTMAS
Old and New
Jean Ritchie
Family and Friends

Greenhays

NATT I BETLEHEM
Solveig Slettahjell, vocal
Tord Gustavsen, arrangements, piano
Sjur Miljeteig, trumpet

KKV

Thursday, December 27, 2012


JINGLE ALL THE WAY
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones

Rounder

LIGHT OF THE STABLE
The Christmas Album
Emmylou Harris

CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS CARD
Wynton Marsalis

Columbia

A CELTIC CHRISTMAS
Peace On Earth
Various Artists

Windham Hill

A CHRISTMAS CELTIC SOJOURN
Various Artists

Rounder - WGBH

GREGORIAN CHANT CHRISTMAS MASS
Monk's Choir of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin, Beuron
Fr. Maurus Pfaff, dir.

Deutsche Grammophon Musikfest

Wednesday, December 26, 2012


THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
Choir of Clare College Cambridge
John Rutter, dir.

London



THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

CELTIC CHRISTMAS
Assorted Artists

Windham Hill

ALLELUIA NATIVITAS
Music and Carols for a Medieval Christmas
Magister Pérotin
Orlando Consort

Metronome

CHRISTMAS AT YORK MINSTER
The Choir of York Minster
Philip Moore, Organist and Master of Music
John Scott Whiteley, organ

York

AQUITANIA
Christmas Music from Aquitarian Monasteries (12th century)
Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby & Barbara Thornton, directors

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Tuesday, December 25, 2012


WASSAIL! WASSAIL!
Early American Christmas Music
Christmas Revels with Jean Ritchie & Robert J. Lurtsema
John Langstaff, dir.

Revels Records

CHRISTMAS
Bruce Cockburn

Columbia

TRADITIONAL & MODERN CAROLS
The Pro Arte Singers
Paul Hillier, dir.

Harmonia Mundi

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM GERMANY
Will Glahe and his Orchestra
with Children's Choir

London

A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Nonesuch

A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS
Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band

Musical Heritage Society

UNSILENT NIGHT
Phil Kline

Cantaloupe Music

LUTHERAN MASS FOR CHRISTMAS MORNING
Michael Praetorius
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Boys Choir and Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral
Paul McCreesh, dir.

Archiv

THYS YOOL
A Medieval Christmas
Martin Best Ensemble

Nimbus

Monday, December 24, 2012


TO DRIVE THE COLD WINTER AWAY
Christmas Revels in Renaissance England
The Dufay Collective

Dufay

ON YOOLIS NIGHT
Medieval Carols & Motets
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi

CHRISTMAS WITH SONOS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
James Meredith, dir.

Well-Tempered Productions

HARK!
Richard Stoltzman
with special guests Eddie Gomez, Dave Samuels, Bill Douglas, Jeremy Wall and the Boys Choir of Harlem

RCA Victor

SONGS FOR CHRISTMAS (VOL. I-V)
Sufjan Stevens

Asthmatic Kitty

OF GLAD TIDINGS
A Celebration of Christmas Music Across The Years
Purcell Consort; Boys of All Saints, Margaret St.
D. Grayston Burgess, conductor
Heinrich Schütz Choir; London String Players; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Camden Wind Ensemble
Roger Norrington, conductor
Elizabethan Singers; Simon Preston, organ; Wilfrid Parry, piano
Louis Halsey, conductor

Argo 3-disc set

YULESTRIDE
Butch Thompson

Daring Records

SNOW ANGELS
Over the Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

Sunday, December 23, 2012


HOME TO THANKSGIVING
Songs of Thanks and Praise
Theatre of Voices, His Majestie's Clerkes, Andrew Lawrence-King, The Pro Arte Singers
Paul Hillier, dir.

Harmonia Mundi

AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS
Carols, Hymns, and Spirituals: 1770 - 1870
Anonymous, Christmas Traditional, American Traditional, John Jacob Niles, John Francis Wade, George Frederick Handel, American Anonymous, Benjamin Franklin White, William Billings, Patsy Williamson, Carl Thiel, Daniel Read
Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director

Erato 

Saturday, December 22, 2012