Christmas Music
Browse our range of Christmas CDs, downloads, DVDs and Blu-rays. From traditional carols and complete oratorios, to early music and instrumental collections there's something to suit any Christmas celebration.
Christmas Music, Charpentier, M-A (composer)
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Mallon's solo team, drawn from the choir, stands up to the competition remarkably well, as does the lithe orchestral playing, Some choral movements sound slightly under-powered, but that's... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2007, Budget Choice
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Charpentier: Messe de minuit pour Noël & Handel: Organ Concertos
Brad Hughley (organ), Elizabeth Packard-Arnold (soprano), Magdalena Wór (mezzo-soprano), Brent Runnels (tenor), Patrick Newell (baritone)
St. Bartholomew's Canterbury Choir, New Trinity Baroque, Predrag Gosta
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The Canadian vocal and instrumental Aradia Ensemble, under its director Kevin Mallon, performs stylishly and with sensibility. — More…
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Charpentier: Noels And Christmas Motets, Vol. 2
Tracy Smith Bessette (soprano), Christopher Dawes (organ), David Nortman (tenor), Christine Stelmacovich (alto), Curtis Streetman (bass)
Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon
Perhaps few composers have produced as much beautiful Christmas music as Charpentier. Both oratorios recorded here are generously laid out for soloists, chorus and a sweet-toned, atmospherically... — More…
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum & Messe de minuit pour Noël
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Minkowski gives a characteristically ebullient, highly charged performance. For my taste, however, the vocal style seems too operatic for a work of this kind. — More…
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Charpentier and Poulenc: Choral Works
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge & City of London Sinfonia, George Guest
This is another quality disc from Chandos which offers beautiful performances of these attractive French choral works — More…
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This is state-of-the-art Charpentier, following traditions established by William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants. The “O” Antiphons for Advent — short, intense consort pieces proclaiming the... — More…
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Charpentier: Un Oratorio de Noël
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Dominique Visse, Ian Honeyman, Michel Laplénie, Philippe Cantor, François Fauché, Agnès Mellon
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all fulsomely rendered, though acoustically a little inconsistent, in rare arrangements with period orchestra. — More…
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