Merry Christmas 2016

Hello all!
Like last year, again we have teamed up to present a collection of Christmas Music from the 13th 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, Cunctator, Aart, Dutch Publisher and the rest of the Core Team ~


Codex Sanblasianus
Medieval Mass for the Feast
Of Annuntiation (14th Century)

Schola Cantorum Budapestiensis
János Mezei - direction
Label: Hungaroton HCD 32200
Recorded September 2001
Courtesy of Thomas Cadfael
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William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
Propers for the Nativity and
Annuntiation of the Virgin
and other vocal works
The Cardinall's Musick
Andrew Carwood - direction
Label: Hyperion CDA67675
Recorded November 2008
Courtesy of Thomas Cadfael
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Fare la nina na
Christmas music of the Italian Baroque
Works of da Gagliano, Turini, Merula,
Kapsberger, Frescobaldi and others
Amaryllis Dieltjens - Soprano
Ensemble Capriola di Gioia
Label: Aeolus AE-10073
Recorded January 2013
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Cristofaro Caresana (ca.1640-1709)
Per la nascita del verbo
Christmas Cantata and other works
of Giaccio and Storace

Capella de Turchini
Antonio Florio - direction
Label: Opus111 OPS 2035
Published in 2000
Thanks to Orlando Furioso
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Choralbearbeitungen advents- und Weinachtslieder,
Preludium & Fuge BWV 532, BWV 541
Fugen BWV 579, BWV 574

Ewald Kooiman - organist
Holzhey organ, Klosterkirche Neresheim
Label: Coronata COR2313
Recorded August 1996
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Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele
Organ works of Corelli, Bach, Krebs,
Karg-Elert, Reger and others

Christian Brembeck - organist
Lenter organ, 1994
Pfarrkirche, Maishofen (A)
Label: Oehms OC 419
Recorded October 2011
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Organ Music for Christmas
Works of Dandrieu, Corrette, Balbastre,
Chauvet, Guilmant, Franck, Dubois

Christian Lambour - organist
Grass organ, 1779
Benedictine Abbey, St Gallen (CH)
Label: Brilliant Classics 94101
Recorded in 2014
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Christmas Cantatas BWV 91 - 57 - 151 - 122

La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken - direction
Label: Accent ACC 25314 (Vol.14)
Recorded December 2010
Courtesy of member Carbozie
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George Frederic Handel
Messiah (Dublin version, 1742)

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt - direction
Label: Linn Records CKD 285
Recorded May 2006
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Magnificat
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

Basler Madrigalisten
L'arpa festante
Fritz Näf - direction
Label: Carus 83.412
Recorded January 2008
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Vom Himmel hoch
Weihnachten mit Ludwig Güttler
Works of Vejvanowsky, Praetorius, Schein,
Heinichen, Langlais and others

Virtuosi Saxoniae et al
Ludwig Güttler - Trumpet
Label: Berlin Classics 0300146BC
Published in 2010
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Michel Corrette (1707-1795)
Noëls and Concertos

Fabio Bonizzoni - organist
Boizard organ, 1714
Ensemble La Risonanza
Label: Tempérament 316039
Recorded August 2008
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Magnificat
Anima mea Dominum

Exaudi Nos
Joan Grimalt - direction
Label: Columna musica 1CM0184
Recorded July 2007
Courtesy of Thomas Cadfael
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Voces8 - Christmas
Selection of wellknown Christmas Songs

Ensemble Voces8
Label: Signum Classics SIGCD291
Recorded August 2011
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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
L'Enfance du Christ

London Symphony Orchestra
Tenebrae Choir & vocal soloists
Sir Colin Davis - direction
Label : LSO Live 0606
Recorded December 2006
Thanks to unknown member
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Weihnachten im deutschen Lied
des 19ten Jahrhunderts
Works of Cornelius, Humperdinck,
Trunk, Haas and Reger

Olaf Bär - Bariton
Helmut Deutsch - Piano
Label: EMI 56204 2
Recorded May 1996
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Uns ward geschenkt ein Kindelein
Weihnachtsmusik
Vocal Works of Wiggins, Spiegler, Sailer,
Seckinger, Philipp and others

Freiburger Domsingknaben
Raimund Hug - direction
Label: Ars Musici 232425
Recorded Februrary 1989
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Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
Vidimus sTellam - Weihnachten, Epiphany
Parts from L"Orgue Mystique & Gregorian Songs

Harald Feller - organist
Schola Gregoriana Monacensis
Johannes Berchmans Göschl - direction
Label: Ars Musici 232369
Recorded April & June 2002
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