Again we present a set of Christmas recordings, from the middle ages till today. We hope there is something for everyone, to enjoy listening moments, in times of wars all over the world.
We wish you all a very happy Christmas!
Thomas Cadfael, Duckjammy, Dutchpublisher
and the whole MIMIC-team
Nowell synge we bothe and som
A feast of Christmas Music in Medieval England
Gothic Voices
Recorded: 2018
Label: Linn Records CKD 591
Antoine Busnois (1430-1492)
Magnificat and other vocal works
Kapel van de Lage Landen
Harry van der Kamp - direction
Recorded May & October 1993
Label: Emergo EC 3954-2
Pierre de la Rue (1452-1518)
Missa Conceptio tua
Medieval & Renaissance Music for Advent
Schola Antiqua of Chicago
Michael Alan Anderson - direction
Recorded December 2012
Ons is een kijnt geboren
Christmas songs from the Koning Manuscript ca. 1500
Aventure, ensemble for Medieval music
Ita Hijmans - direction
Recorded January 2007
Label: Challenge Records FL72412
Magnificat, Hymne & Pieces d'orgue
Ensemble Les Meslanges
Thomas van Essen, Volny Hostiou - direction
Francois Ménissier - organ
Recorded July & September 2019
Label: Paraty 100273
Christmas Mass in Rome
Works of Palestrina, Josquin, Anerio,
Frescobaldi, Victoria, Pasquini & others
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh - direction
Published in 1993
Label: Archiv 437 833-2
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
The Christmas Story & Sacred Concertos
SWV 334, 384, 385, 395, 456 & 468
Yale Schola Cantorum/David Hill
Recorded: 2018
Label: Hyperion CDA68315
RÓS - Songs of Christmas
Works of Von Bingen, Praetorius,
Fagerheim, Nordquist and traditionals
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Grete Pedersen - direction
Recorded April 2013
Label: BIS SACD-2029
Vocal works of Praetorius, Schein,
Hassler, Schröter, Reusner and others
Ensemble Stimmwerck
Recorded April 2012
Label: Christophorus CHR 77364
Baroque Christmas Cantatas
from Central Germany II
Works of Schelle, Liebe, Erlebach,
Rosenmüller, Vogel
Sächsisches Vovalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle
Mathias Jung - direction
Recorded: June 2021
Label: CPO 555 491-2
Rorate Coeli
Advent & Christmas Music in 18th-Century Prague
Works of Rovensky, Reichenauer, Zelenka et al
Collegium Marianum
Jana Semerádová
Recorded September 2005 & May 2009
Label: Supraphon SU 4002-2
For unto us a Child is born
Baroque Christmas Carols
Gerard de Wit - organ
Recorded September 2015
Label: Dutch Music Records
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Magnificat BWV 243a, Cantata BWV 63
La Chapelle Harmonique
Valentin Tournet - direction
Recorded Live December 2018
Label: Chateau de Versailles CV009
Magnificat
Organ works & improvisations
Sietze de Vries - organ
Recorded September 2020
Label: JSB Records
Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686-1768)
Oratorio for the Nativity of Jesus Christ
Kammerorchester Basel
Riccardo Minasi - direction
Recorded December 2016 (live)
Label: Sony 19075868452
Gottfried August Homilius (1715-1785)
Advent & Christmas Cantatas
Hanna Herfurtner (soprano), Franziska Gottwald (contralto),
Georg Poplutz (tenor), Mauro Borgiani (bass)
Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: 2019
Label: CPO 555 278-2
Francois-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829)
La Nativité
Christmas Oratorio
Ex Tempore, Les Agréments
Mannheimer Hofkapelle
Florian Heyerick - direction
Recorded March 2016 & December 2019
Label: CPO 777 869-2
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830)
Missa pastoril para Noite de Natal
Ensemble Turicum
Luiz Alves da Silva - direction
Recorded October 1999
Label: K617131
An Oxford Christmas
Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Joshua Ryan - organ
William Vann - direction
Recorded October 2020 & June 2021
Label: Albion Records ALBCD050
Mirabile Mysterium - Choral music for Christmas
from different countries & eras
Sächsisches Vokalensemble
Matthias Jung - direction
Recorded: 2018
Label: CPO 555 318-2
Daquin: Noëls
Vocal music from several centuries
in settings by Masato Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki; Masato Suzuki (organ)
Recorded: 2018
Label: BIS-2291
Weihnacht
Christmas songs from
the Middle Ages to the 20th century
amarcord ensemble
Recorded: 2019
Label: Raumklang RK ap 10119
A Star is Shining
Christmas Carols
The Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble
Recorded January 2004
Label: Opus3 CD 22041
Der Singer Pur Adventskalender
24 Lieder zum Advent
Singer Pur
Recorded February 2015
Label: Oehms OC 1810
Weihnachtliche Orgelmusik
Works of De Drusina, Weckmann, Böhm,
Kuhnau, Walther, Dandrieu, Bach JS
Domorganist Albrecht Koch - organ
Recorded May 2011
Label: Motette MOT 13861
Er is een Kindeke geboren
Dutch Christmas Songs
Nederlands kamerkoor
Jetse Bremer - direction
Recorded January 1994
Label: Erasmus WVH134
Christmas Songs
Choir of Westminster School
Ben Bloor - organ
Timothy Garrard - direction
Recorded January 2018
Label: Signum SIGCD595