CHRISTMAS VESPERS
Heinrich Schütz
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh - director

Archiv Produktion

A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS
Maddy Prior
The Carnival Band

MHS via Saydisc

ALLELUIA NATIVITAS
Music and Carols for a Medieval Christmas
Pérotin - Smert - others
Orlando Consort

Metronome

VERLEIH UNS FRIEDEN GNÄDIGLICH
16th - 17th Century German Protestant Church Music
Hille Perl - treble viol
Anna Maria Friman - soprano
Lee Santana - lute
Sirius Viols

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

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

Well-Tempered Productions

DREAM SEASON
The Christmas Harp
Yolanda Kondonassis - harp
Jurji Konje - percussion

Telarc

THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Told in Plainchant, Motets, Dialogues & Folk Carols
Theatre of Voices
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

YULESTRIDE
Butch Thompson - piano solo

Daring Records

CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS CARD
Wynton Marsalis

Columbia

ON YOOLIS NIGHT
Medieval Carols & Motets
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi

I SING THE BIRTH
Anonymous - Byrd - Smith - Perotin - Palestrina - Clemens - Plainchant
New York Polyphony

Avie

THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT THOMAS BECKET
The Unfinished Vespers: December 29 1170
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge
Mary Berry - director

Herald

FOR THE FEAST OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY
Gregorian Chant from Canterbury Cathedral
The Lay Clerks of Canterbury Cathedral
David Flood - Master of the Choristers

Metronome

MEMORY OF THOMAS BECKET
Gregorian Chant
Matutinum, Laudes, Missa, Vesperae
Schola Hungarica
László Dobszay, Janka Szendrei - conductors

Hungaroton

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

RCA Victor

BETHLEHEM AFTER DARK
Butch Thompson - piano
Laura Sewell - cello

Daring Records

CHRISTMAS CAROLS FOR SOLO GUITAR
Traditional
Charlie Byrd - guitar

Koch

A DAVE BRUBECK CHRISTMAS
Dave Brubeck - solo piano

Telarc Jazz

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

Pacific Vista - Riverwalk

COURT JESTERS
Tudor Minstrel Music
John Dowland - William Byrd - William cornysh - King Henry VIII - Others
Sirinu

Griffin

CHRISTMAS JAZZ JAM
Wynton Marsalis
and his 10-Piece Band

Sommerset

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Cyrus Chestnut
& Friends

Atlantic

CAROLS
From the Old & New Worlds
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi USA

A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Johann Hermann Schein - Claudio Monteverdi - Henry Purcell
Boston Camerata
Schola Cantorum of Boston
Joel Cohen - director, lute

Elektra Nonesuch

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

Harmonia Mundi USA

A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director

Nonesuch

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

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Vince Guaraldi Trio

Fantasy

CHRISTMAS
Bruce Cockburn

Columbia

A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director

Elektra Nonesuch Erato

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

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

Revels Records

THE NEW POSSIBILITY
Guitar Soli Christmas Album
John Fahey

Takoma

A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
Heinrich Schütz - Henry Purcell - Andrea Gabrieli - Claudio Monteverdi - Michael Praetorious
Heinrich Schütz Choir
  Paul Esswood, Ian Partridge, Stafford Dean - soloists
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Camden Wind Ensemble
Charles Spinks - organ
Sir Roger Norrington - conductor

London

CREATOR OF THE STARS
Christmas Music from Earlier Times
Anonymous - Praetorious - Erbach - De Lassus - Desprez - Du Fay - Byrd, Ockeghem
Pomerium
Alexander Blachly - director

Archiv Produktion

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

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

CYPRIOT ADVENT ANTIPHONS
Anonymous C.1390
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel - director

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

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

Dufay Recordings

THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

SHINING LIGHT
Advent Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.)
Aquitanian Repertory Anonymous, Traditional, Anonymous, Italian Anonymous
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music
Barbara Thornton, Benjamin Bagby - directors

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

ANCIENT NOËLS
Basque and Galician carols from Spain, medieval Dutch and French carols, and Renaissance tunes by Tilman Susato
Maggie Sansone - hammered dulcimer, direction
Ensemble Galilei
Marcia Diehl - recorder, bowed psaltery, pennywhistle
Jim Brooks - recorder, concertina
Sue Richards - Celtic harp
Carolyn Surrick - treble viol, bass viola da gamba
with
Bonnie Rideout - Scottish fiddle
Zan McLeod - cittern, guitar
Ben Harms - hand drums, medieval tambourine

Maggie's Music

IN NOMINE
16th-Century English Music for Viols including the complete consort music of Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis - Christopher Tye - William Byrd - John Taverner - others
Fretwork
 
Amon Ra

MUSICALL HUMORS
London 1605
Tobias Hume
Jordi Savall - viola de gamba

Alia Vox

ENGLISH CHAMBER MUSIC OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Baltzar - Schop - Matteis - Brade - Lawes - Simpson - Jenkins - Byrd - Farinel - Anonymous
Trio Sonnerie 
Stephen Stubbs - theorbo, baroque guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp, organ  

Apex via Teldec

TARPAN SEASONS
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Orchestra

Jazzland

"HOW THE WORLD WAGS"
Social Music for a 17th Century Englishman
Webster - Ravenscroft - Purcell - Bennet - Johnson - Parker - Croft - D'Urfey - Locke - Lawes - Anonymous
The City Waits

Hyperion Helios

CHANSONS ET DANCERIES
French Renaissance Wind Music
Desprez - Gombert - Crecquilln - Van Wilder - Willaert - Maillard - Anonymous
Piffaro
Joan Kimball, Robert Wiemken - directors

Archiv Produktion

ENGLISH CHAMBER MUSIC OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Baltzar - Schop - Matteis - Brade - Lawes - Simpson - Jenkins - Byrd - Farinel - Anonymous
Trio Sonnerie 
Stephen Stubbs - theorbo, baroque guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp, organ  

Apex via Teldec

MESSE DE NOSTRE DAME
Sacred and Secular Music
Guillaume de Machaut
Ensemble Gilles Binchoit
Dominique Vellard - director

Brilliant Classics

3 CD set via Cantus

THE COMPLETE "JAZZ GUITAR"
Jim Hall Trio
- Jim Hall - guitar
- Carl Perkins - piano
- Red Mitchell - bass

Essential Jazz Classics