Wednesday, December 25, 2019


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

Tuesday, December 24, 2019


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

Sunday, December 22, 2019


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

Saturday, December 21, 2019


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