CHRISTMAS WITH CHANTICLEER
Vaughan Williams - Tavener - Distler - Mäntyjärvi - Bold - Willan - Gruber - Traditional
Chanticleer
Dawn Upshaw - soprano
Joseph Jennings - music director

Teldec Classics

ELIZABETHAN CHRISTMAS ANTHEMS

Orlando Gibbons - William Byrd - Thomas Tomkins - Martin Peerson - John Amner - Anthony Holborne - John Bull - Anonymous

Rose Consort of Viols
Red Byrd - vocal ensemble

 

Amon Ra

THE VERY BEST OF CHRISTMAS JAZZ
Verve Presents
Ella Fitzgerald - Kenny Burrell - Billy Eckstine - Ramsey Lewis Trio - Joe Williams - John Coltrane - Mel Tormé - Louis Armstrong & The Commanders - Shirley Horn - Bill Evans - Count Basie & His Orchestra - Jimmy Smith - Dinah Washington - Oscar Peterson

Verve

CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS CARD
Wynton Marsalis

Columbia

THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT THOMAS BECKET
The Unfinished Vespers: December 29 1170
Gregorian Chant from Canterbury Cathedral
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 for the Fifth Day of Christmas
Schola Hungarica
László Dobszay, Janka Szendrei - conductors

Hungaroton

INNOCENCE
Innocence* - The Lamb* - Song for Athene - Tyger - Annunciation - Two Hymns
John Tavener
William Blake* - text
Westminster Abbey Choir
English Chamber Orchestra
Martin Neary - conductor
Patricia Rozario - soprano
Leigh Nixon - tenor
Graham Titus - bass
Alice Neary - cello
Martin Baker - organ

Sony Classics

A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS
The Carnival Band
Maddy Prior - vocals

MHS - Saydisc

LE LABYRINTHE d'ARIAN  

Gautier de Coinci - Anonymous - St. Joan - Alfonse X - Alonso Mudarra - Kapsperger - Trabaci - Merula - Monteverdi - Arianna Savall (arrangements and improvisations)

Arianna Savall - harps anciennes et chant

Alia Vox

 

DIXIE CHICKEN

Little Feat

Warner Bros.

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

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

 

A VENETIAN CHRISTMAS

Giovanni Gabrieli - Cipriano de Rore

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Paul McCreesh - director

 

Archiv Produktion 

MY HOLIDAY
Mindy Smith

Vanguard

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

Revels Records

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

Harmonia Mundi

SURROUNDED BY ANGELS

A Christmas Celebration

Traditional French, English, Greek, Scottish, Irish, Catalan: Medieval - Folk - Praetorius - Gruber

Ensemble Galilei

Sonus Luminus

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Vince Guaraldi Trio

Fantasy

CHRISTMAS
Bruce Cockburn

Columbia

A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director

Elektra Nonesuch / Erato

A DAVE BRUBECK CHRISTMAS
Dave Brubeck - solo piano

Telarc Jazz

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

A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director

Nonesuch

THIRD CHRISTMAS MASS
Gregorian Chant
Monks' Choir of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin, Beuron
Fr. Maurus Pfaff - director

Deutsche Grammophon

YULESTRIDE
Butch Thompson - piano solo

Daring Records

THE NEW POSSIBILITY
Guitar Soli Christmas Album
John Fahey

Takoma

 

A TOOLBOX CHRISTMAS  

Woody Philips  

 

Gourd Music

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

Archiv Produktion

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

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

Telarc

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

Dufay Recordings

BRIGHT DAY STAR
Music for the Yuletide Season
Old Carols and Dance Tunes from the British Isles, Germany, and Appalachia
The Baltimore Consort

Dorian

ADVENT CANTATAS
Georg Philipp Telemann
GSOConsort
Gudrun Sidonie Otto - soprano
Ingolf Seidel - baritone
Christine Schwark - violoncello
Michael Freimuth - laute, theorbe
Wolfgang Brunner - cembalo, orgel

CPO

CHRISTMAS JAZZ JAM
Wynton Marsalis
and his 10-Piece Band

Sommerset

ON A COLD WINTER'S DAY

Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles

Turlough O'Carolan - Thomas Weelkes - English Traditional - Scottish Traditional - Irish Traditional - Welsh Traditional

Quadriga Consort

 

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

CELTIC CHRISTMAS
Windham Hill Sampler
Various Artists

Windham Hill

'THE DREAM OF HEROD'
A Choral Poem based upon Vocal Works Ancient and Modern
Various and Sundry Composers, Ancient and Modern

Tenebrae
Nigel Short - director

Signum

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

RCA Victor

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Cyrus Chestnut
& Friends

Atlantic

THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Vince Guaraldi Trio

Fantasy

SURROUNDED BY ANGELS

A Christmas Celebration

Traditional French, English, Greek, Scottish, Irish, Catalan: Medieval - Folk - Praetorius - Gruber

Ensemble Galilei

Sonus Luminus

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

Harmonia Mundi USA

RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER

and other Christmas Classics

Gene Autry 

Columbia Legacy

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

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

Avie

A WINTER'S SOLSTICE 

Windham Hill Artists

Windham Hill

 

ODIN'S RAVEN MAGIC

Setting of a 15th/16th century Icelandic Poem in the Edda Tradition

Sigur Rós

with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson

Steindór Andersen

Páll Guðmundsson

Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir 

Krúnk

BEING DUFAY
Music based on vocal fragments by Guillaume Dufay
Ambrose Field - composer, electronics
John Potter - tenor

ECM New Series