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Music for Christmas

New Christmas Music for 2015
New from Two Celebrated Choral Ensembles

❦Traditional & Modern Carols / Higginbottom

Christmas Daybreak / The Crossing

Works: Before dawn; Out
of your sleep; What sweeter
music can we bring; William
Byrd: Gradualia; In the Bleak
Midwinter, plus carols by
Henry John Gauntlett; Franz
Gruber; Holst; Howells;
Joubert & Mendelssohn
Artists: Edward Higginbottom/New College Oxford
Choir (1 CD) (Regis)
REGS 1330 $16.99
“Some of the best-known carols for full choir are
sung with vigour, but never exaggerated...The program guarantees almost 80 minutes of exquisite
singing.” -Music Web International

Works: MacMillan: Alpha and
Omega; Benjamin C.S. Boyle:
The Carols for Wintertide;
Zachary Wadsworth: Gabriel’s
Message; Works by Andrew
Gant, Edwin Fissinger and
Gabriel Jackson Artists:
Donald Nally/Choir of St.
Paul’s Chruch Chestnut Hill; The Crossing (1 CD)
(Innova)
INNO 853 $13.99 On Sale
“Two Philadelphia ensembles share the spotlight;
the choir of Saint Paul’s and a chamber choir
called The Crossing. Both are full of singers who
know what they’re doing...” -ARG

German Baroque Sacred Music for Christmas /

Handel: Messiah / Hogwood [2 CDs +BR Audio]

Artists: Choeur de Chambre
de Namur. (7 CD) (Ricercar)
7 RCR 349 $49.99
This release focuses on the
Nativity repertoire, extending
from the early 17th century
to the generation of J.S.
Bach The compositions by
Praetorius, Selle, Tünder, Lubeck, Buxtehude,
Scheidt, Hammerschmidt, Schütz and Bruhns tell
the Christmas story with tenderness and joy.

Light of Gold: Cappella San Francisco Christmas
Artists: Ragnar Bohlin/Cappella SF Christmas. (1
CD) (Delos)
DEL 3485 $15.49 On Sale
Spanning more than a millennium, this holiday program from the Bay Area choir includes traditional
seasonal standards, original compositions and arrangements from English