A VENETIAN CHRISTMAS

Giovanni Gabrieli - Cipriano de Rore

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Paul McCreesh - director

 

Archiv Produktion 

MISSA "HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST"
Christmas Mass in Rome
Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
Josquin - Victoria - Frescobaldi - D. Mazzocchi - Carissimi
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh - director

Archiv Produktion

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

Revels Records

THE TRUMPET CHILD
Over the Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

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

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

A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director

Elektra Nonesuch / Erato

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

Avie

AS IT FELL ON A HOLIE EVE

Music for an Elizabethan Christmas
William Byrd - Thomas Ravenscroft - Anthony Holborne - Anonymous - John Bull - Thomas Moreley - Tobias Hume

Parthenia: A Consort of Viols

Julianne Baird - soprano

MSR Classics

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

RCA Victor

A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS
Maddy Prior
The Carnival Band

MHS via Saydisc

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

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

THE NEW POSSIBILITY
Guitar Soli Christmas Album
John Fahey

Takoma

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

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

Archiv Produktion

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

Harmonia Mundi

THE NIGHT OF SAINT NICHOLAS

A Medieval Liturgy for Advent

Officium Sancti Nicolai Episcopi & Confessoris

La Reverdie

I Cantori Gregoriani

ARCANA

ABOVE THE STARRS
Verses, Anthems & Consort Music
Thomas Tomkins
Fretwork
Catherine King, Emma Kirkby, Richard Wistreich, Donald Greig, Jonathan Arnold, Charles Daniels - vocals

Harmonia Mundi

 

AQUITANIA 

Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th century) 

Sequentia 

Benjamin Bagby & Barbara Thornton- directors 

 

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

LUZ DEL ALVA
Spanish Songs of the Early Renaissance
Cancionero Musical de Palacio - Cancionero Musical de Colombina
La Morra
Arianna Savall - harp, voice
Petter Udland Johansen - fiddle, voice
Tore Eketorp - vihuela de arco
Corina Marti - flue, harpsichord, direction
Michal Gondko - vihuela de mano, gittern, lute, direction

Ramée

MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN
Alan Hovhaness
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner - conductor

RCA Victor Red Seal

DREAMS & PRAYERS
Explores music's role in religious mysticism as the ultimate passageway between the physical and the spiritual
Hildegard von Bingen - Mehmet Ali Sanhkol - Osvaldo Golijov - Ludwig van Beethoven
A Far Cry
David Krakauer - clarinet
Miki-Sophia Cloud - curator

Crier Records

LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES
Michel-Richard De Lalande
plus works by Marin Marais - Robert De Visée - Louis Couperin
Isabelle Desrochers - soprano
Maricio Buraglia - theorbe
Nima Ben David - viola de gambe
Pierre Trocellier - clavecin, orgue

Auvidis Astrée

WRITTEN IN THE STARS

Bill Charlap Trio

 

Blue Note

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

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

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

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
The Bridegroom & Other Works
John Tavener
Anonymous 4
Chilingirian Quartet

Harmonia Mundi

HOME TO THANKSGIVING  
Songs of Thanks and Praise
Various Composers - Medieval to Early American
His Majestie's Clerkes
Theatre of Voices  
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

THE NIGHT OF SAINT NICHOLAS

A Medieval Liturgy for Advent

Officium Sancti Nicolai Episcopi & Confessoris

La Reverdie

I Cantori Gregoriani

ARCANA