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Each autumn I begin my search–actually, it’s more waiting than searching–for a new, interestingly programmed choral recording of Christmas music that I can keep close
For fans of traditional Christmas music, either choral or the popular forms known to English parishes and common folk, you will find a virtual treasure
This is a fine rendition of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, unusual in the fact that it’s performed by a girls’ choir rather than the
This is a very respectable Christmas Oratorio, one that may have been forgotten by collectors–it is a reissue of an Erato production from 1984–but whose
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio not only contains some of his most inspired, exuberant music, but also features introspective arias that rival those in the cantatas and
The bright recording and arrangements (lots of bells, shiny brass) go delightfully with Sutherland’s high-placed voice, at its most fabulous in 1965 when this was
There are relatively few recordings of Bach’s Easter Oratorio, and perhaps there’s a “snob factor” involved, being that for this exuberant sacred composition Bach re-used
If you own Harmonia Mundi’s 1998 full-price release Carols from the Old & New Worlds, Vol. 2, then you don’t need this budget reissue of
Almost every year a first rate choir records a traditional program of sacred Christmas music–and this year it looks as if it’s the Choir of
Once in while a recording comes along in which the performers, producers, and recording team get everything right. This is one of them. First issued
