Wednesday, December 31, 2014


A GREAT BIG CHRISTMAS
The Christmas Album
Tuba Meisters

tubameisters.com



HI-FIDELITY HOLIDAY
A Holiday Compilation in Stereo
Esquivel, Keb' Mo', Cocteau Twins, Dean Martin, Combustible Edison, Leonard Cohen, XTC, El Vez, James Brown, The Alarm, The Temptations, Peggy Lee, Robbie Robertson, The Blue Hawaiians, Bobby Darin

Starbucks/EMI

WEIHNACHTSMUSIK DES BAROCK
Baroque Christmas Music
Bach - Handel - Purcell - Corelli - Torelli - Praetorius - Heinichen - Schmelzer - Schein - Vivaldi
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

Delta Music, GDR


TRADITIONAL & MODERN CAROLS
The Pro Arte Singers
Paul Hillier, director
Indiana University Children's Chamber Choir

Harmonia Mundi USA

DECEMBER
Piano Solos
George Winston

Windham Hill

Tuesday, December 30, 2014


WEIHNACHTSHISTORIE
Weihnachtshistorie: Historia der Freuden- und Gnadenreichen Geburth SWV 435
Meine Seele erhebt den Herren SWV 344
Die Sieben Worte unseres lieben Erlösers und Seligmachers Jesu Christi SWV 478

Heinrich Schütz
Musicalische Compagney

DGM

AN AMERICANA CHRISTMAS
Vassar Clements
Norman & Nancy Blake
Roy Huskey, Jr.
...and friends

Koch

Monday, December 29, 2014


TE DEUM
Te Deum / Silouans Song / Magnificat / Berliner Messe
Arvo Pärt
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor

ECM New Series


SONGS FOR THE WINTER SEASON
Volumes 1 & 2
Various Artists Compilation
The Owl Service Jukebox

Stone Tape Recordings

VERVE PRESENTS:
The Very Best of Christmas Jazz
Various Verve Artists

Verve

CHRISTMAS CAROLS FOR SOLO GUITAR
Charlie Byrd

Koch

MISSA "HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST"
Christmas Mass in Rome
Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh, director

 Archiv

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Saturday, December 27, 2014


A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Vince Guaraldi Trio

Fantasy

IN NATALI DOMINI
Medieval Christmas Songs
Niederaltaicher Scholaren
Konrad Ruhland, director

Sony Classical

BETHLEHEM AFTER DARK
Butch Thompson, piano
Laura Sewell, cello

Daring Records

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

Metronome

Friday, December 26, 2014


CHRISTMAS
The Moosburg Gradual of 1360
Capella Antiqua München
Niederaltaicher Scholaren

Konrad Ruhland, director

SEON - Sony

NOËLS CELTIQUES
Celtic Christmas Music from Brittany
Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde

Green Linnet

Thursday, December 25, 2014


A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS
Maddy Prior with
The Carnival Band

MHS via Saydisc

CHRISTMAS
Bruce Cockburn

Columbia

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

HOT JAZZ FOR A COOL YULE
Live from the Riverwalk Landing
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band

Pacific Vista

A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director

Elektra Nonesuch

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

Revel Records

THE NEW POSSIBILITY:
John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album
John Fahey

Takoma

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

Archiv

HARK!
Richard Stoltzman
Eddie Gomez, Dave Samuels, Bill Douglas, Jeremy Wall
Boys Choir of Harlem

RCA Victor

Wednesday, December 24, 2014




CHRISTMAS WITH SONOS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
James Meredith, director

Well-Tempered Productions

ANCIENT NOËLS
Maggie Sansone and Ensemble Galilei

Maggie's Music

A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director

Nonesuch

Saturday, December 20, 2014


THYS YOOL
A Medieval Christmas, drawn from a variety of English and Continental sources
The Martin Best Ensemble
Martin Best; director, lute, psaltery

Nimbus

Friday, December 19, 2014


ONCE, AS I REMEMBER...
The story of Christmas based on the Springhead Christmas Play
Various Sources and Composers
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner, director

Decca

Thursday, December 18, 2014



6 SONATE A DUE HAUTBOIS ET BASSON
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Paul Dombrecht, Danny Bond, Richte Van Der Meer, Marcel Ponseele, Robert Kohnen, Chiara Banchini, Ku Ebbinge

Accent

Wednesday, December 17, 2014


THE CONSORT SETTS FOR 5 & 6 VIOLS AND ORGAN
William Lawes
Fretwork
Paul Nicholson, organ

Virgin Veritas

UMMAGUMMA
Pink Floyd

Harvest - EMI

DIMINUITO
16th century madrigals, chansons, and instrumentals re-imagined
Rolf Lislevand; lute and direction
with instrumental and vocal ensemble

ECM New Series

UNACCOMPANIED CELLO SUITES, NOS. 1, 2, & 5
Performed on Double Bass
Johann Sebastian Bach
Edgar Meyer; double bass

Sony Classics

A DREAM
John Dowland
Hopkinson Smith, lute

Naïve

Tuesday, December 16, 2014


WORKS FOR PERCUSSION
Anders Koppel, Fuzzy, Per Nørgård, Andy Pape, Minoru Miki
Safri Duo (Morton Friis, Uffe Savery)

Chandos

Monday, December 15, 2014


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

Harmonia Mundi

MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS
20th Anniversary Recording
Steve Reich
Steve Reich and Musicians

Nonesuch

Sunday, December 14, 2014


CHRISTMAS WITH CHANTICLEER
Chanticleer
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Joseph Jennings, music director

Teldec

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

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

THE RITE OF SPRING
Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Johann Sebastian Bach
Hubert Laws
Don Sebesky; arranger, conductor

CTI

Saturday, December 13, 2014


THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

Friday, December 12, 2014




THE ESSENTIAL JOHN FAHEY
John Fahey

Vanguard

PURE BOSSA NOVA
A View on the Music of...
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Jobim and a few other artists

Verve

LE VERGINE
Musica sopra le stanze del Petrarca in laude della Madonna
Cipriano de Rore
The Hilliard Ensemble

Harmonia Mundi

Thursday, December 11, 2014


SCATTERED RHYMES
Tarik O'Regan, Guillaume De Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, Gavin Bryars
The Orlando Consort
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier, director

Harmonia Mundi