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.
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedErin Wall (soprano), Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Astonishingly well controlled…the solo voices are rich and weighty…[the] flute provides a charming obbligato to ‘How beautiful are the feet’, while the tenor’s ‘Thy rebuke…’ is intensely moving…a... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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‘La Notte’: Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December! — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2022
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My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini RecommendedBarbora Sojková (soprano), Markéta Cukrová (alto) & Tomáš Král (bass)
Musica Florea (on period instruments), Marek Štryncl
It is hugely persuasive music and is performed here by the period instrument group Musica Florea under Marek Štryncl with real tenderness and commitment. Soloists and choir are in good voice,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Three of the four outstanding soloists - fine Handelians all - cut their teeth in the choir, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers has been a regular soloist. Crucially they don't stand apart, regally dispensing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2008
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Building a Library, April 2009, First Choice
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a genuinely touching, warm-hearted and classy example of the genre – and more imaginative in the choice of repertoire than most. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2023
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JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63
Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig
Julia Doyle (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It’s an absolute joy – far too good to keep for Christmas. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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11 singers of clarity and colour glitter and glow... a sonic festive feast ... The addition of local dance rhythms brings a rustic earthiness to Renaissance Mass from Mexico. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2020
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The two top voices here – Sandrine Piau and Katherine Watson – are well matched, with Anthea Pichanick the even, steady contralto and Rupert Charlesworth the clean, fresh-toned tenor…While Niquet’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2017
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Record Review, 16th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Record Review, 14th October 2017, Recording of the Week
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