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In its “first large-scale performance” in its association with Linn Records, the Retrospect Ensemble, its company of soloists and conductor Matthew Halls, can boast renditions
The Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge has perhaps the sweetest, most mellifluous boy treble sound of all the British cathedral choirs (rivaled only by
If you like your Christmas Oratorio in halves (the first three cantatas are available on a separate disc), this recent release from the Augsburg Cathedral
While not a Christmas recording, the presence of such classics as “Quelle est cette odeur agréable?” and “Sweet little Jesus boy”, along with the Christmas-themed
No composer/conductor is more closely associated with Christmas music than John Rutter, and it seems that the world–or at least record-label marketing/A&R departments–can’t get enough
There are several very fine period-performance recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the catalog, including the two reference versions listed above, and this one, from
Sounding much like an overdubbed Anonymous 4–with a slightly brighter sound and placed in a highly resonant acoustic space–the seven women of the a cappella
It’s been 10 years–1993’s On Yoolis Night–since we heard this ensemble sing real Christmas carols–in English, even. Fans of this extraordinary quartet will be pleasantly
Although technically this is not really a “classical recording”–its sensibility and the majority of its repertoire are definitely more in the pop and pseudo-jazz vein–its
In the 10th or 12th or 15th centuries, Christmas as we know it hadn’t been invented, and such things as carols were yet to be
