Again we have teamed up to present a collection of Christmas Music from the 16th through the 20th Centuries.
We hope you enjoy our selection. We feel there may be a little something for everybody during this Blessed Holiday Season.
May you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
~ Thomas Cadfael, Dutch Publisher and the rest of the Core Team ~
Missa Ave maris stella
Celebrating the Annunciation in Renaissance Rome
Cappella Pratensis
Stratton Bull - direction
Label: Challenge Classics CC72632
Recorded: November 2013
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Tomás Luis De Victoria (1548-1611)
Canticum Nativitatis Domini
L'Almodí Cor de Cambra
Capella de Ministrers
Carles Magraner - direction
Label: Licanus CdR 1130
Recorded: December 2010
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I Pastori di Bettelemme
Constanze Backes, Clementine Jesdinsky, Chiyuki Okamura (soprano)
Franz Vitzthum (alto), Christian Dietz (tenor), Markus Flaig (bass)
Echo du Danube
Label: Accent ACC 24231
Recorded: August 2009
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Joannes Berckelaers (1630-1700)
Petrus Hurtado (1620-1671)
Joannes Loisel and other composers
Cantiones Natalitiae
Christmas Songs from the time of Rubens
Camerata Trajectina
Label: Globe GLO 6033
Recorded September 1995
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Toccata, Fuga, Choral fantasies
Works of Scheidemann, Scheidt, Bach,
Gade, Reimann, Reger and others
Torsten Laux - organ
Label: Organ ORG 7009 2
Recorded February 2000
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Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Weihnachtshistorie, SWV 435
Gerlinde Sämann (soprano)
Georg Poplutz (tenor)
Dresdner Kammerchor, Dresdner Barockorchester
Hans-Christoph Rademann - direction
Label: Carus 83.257
Recorded: January 2014
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Cantatas
Advent to Epiphany
La Gioconda
Label: Querstand VKJK 1107
Recorded: March 2011
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Magnificat in E flat (BWV 243a)
Cantata 63
Organ Works
Dunedin Consort, John Butt (organ)
Label: Linn Records CKD 469
Recorded: July 2014
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Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248)
Veronika Winter (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto)
Jan Kobow (tenor), Markus Flaig (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max - direction
Label: CPO 777 459-2
Recorded: January 2009
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Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778)
Cantata per Natale
Silvia Frigato (soprano), Elena Biscuola (contralto)
Alessio Tosi (tenor), gambe di legno
Alessandro Ciccolini - direction
Label: fra bernardo fb 1409323
Recorded: December 2011
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Works of Johan Christoph Friedrich,
Carl Philipp Emanuel, Wilhelm Friedemann,
Johann Ernst, Johann Ludwig, Johann Sebastian
Concerto Köln, Das Kleine Konzert,
La Stagione Frankfurt and others
Label: Capriccio C5105
Published in 2011
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Noëls de Provence
Noëls from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Transcribed for French Classical Organ
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris
Guy Morancon - organ
Label: Mandala MAN 4929
Published in 1998
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Huddersfield Choral Society
Seller Engineering Band
Simon Lindley - organ
Brian Kay & Phillip McCann - direction
Label: Chandos CHAN 4530
Recorded June 1993
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Essence of Christmas
Works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy,
Tchaikovsky, Bridge and Buys
Quintessenz
Leipzig Flute Ensemble
Label: Genuin GEN 12253
Recorded February 2012
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Weihnachtliche Musik für Trompete und Orgel
Works of Dandrieu, Krebs, Reger and others
Ensemble Concertino a Tre
Label: Genuin GEN 85518
Recorded July 2005
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Christmas Cantatas & Carols
Works of Hammerschmidt, Praetorius,
Graupner and others
Konzertchor Darmstadt
Kammerorchester Darmstadt
Wolfgang Seeliger - direction
Label: Christophorus CHE 0067-2
Recorded in 1981 and 1988
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Works of Graupner, Will, Wesley,
Liszt, Smetana, Goller and others
Franz Haselböck - organ
Label: Christophorus CHE 0206-2
Recorded in April 1976 and July 1981
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In Dulci Jubilo
Cheerful Christmas organ music
Works of Daquin, Bach, barber,
Vaughan Williams, Ireland and others
Martin Souter - organ
Label: Gift of Music CCL CDG1141
Published in 2005
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Contemporary Carols
Works of Muhly, Bennett,
Howells, Ives and others
The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford
Stephen Farr - direction and organ
Label: Resonus RES120138
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