CAPTAIN HUMES POETICALL MUSICKE
Music for Viols, Lute, and Voice: Volume 1
Tobias Hume
Les Voix Humaines - viols
Stephen Stubbs - lute
Daniel Taylor - vocal

Naxos

EPIPHANY MASS
as it may have been celebrated in St. Thomas, Leipzig, c. 1740
Johann Sebastian Bach
Anonymous,  Johann Pachelbel,  Michael Praetorius
James Johnstone,  Timothy Roberts,  Peter Harvey,  Angus Davidson - soloists
Paul McCreesh - conductor
Gabrieli Consort and  Players
Congregational Choirs of Freberg and Dresden

Archiv Produktion

WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Johann Sebastian Bach
Theo Adam, Peter Schreier, Annelies Burmeister, Arleen Auger
Dresdner Kreuzchor, Dresdner Philharmonie
Martin Flämig - conductor

Berlin Classics

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

Koch

A TOOLBOX CHRISTMAS
Woody Philips

Gourd Music





Sort of a sentimental, melodic Einstürzende Neubauten for the Holidays.

THE COSMOPOLITAN
Songs by
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Christophorus

TRANSMIGRATION OF THE MAGUS
John Zorn
Bill Frisell - guitar
John Medeski - organ
Kenny Wollesen, Al Upowski - vibes, bells
Carol Emanuel, Bridget Kibby - harps

Tzadik

ROBIN IS TO THE GREENWOOD GONE
Elizabethan Lute Music
Batchelar - Cuttinge - De Countie - Holborne - Huwet - Robinson
Paul O'Dette - lute

Nonesuch

WHAT ARTEMISIA HEARD
Music and Art from the Time of Caravaggio and Gentilesch
Uccellina, Kapsberger, Frescobaldi, Casccini, Monteverdi, Falconieri, Rossi
El Mundo
Richard Savino - director

Sono Luminus

RYPDAL/VITOUS/DeJOHNETTE
Terje Rypdal - guitar
Miroslav Vitous - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums

ECM