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Music for Christmas, our best sellers

Music for Christmas, our best sellers

All-Time, Most Popular Christmas Music
Christmas & the Music of John Rutter

❦Colors Of Christmas / The Bach Choir

❦A Christmas Festival / John Rutter

Works: O Holy Night; Sleigh
Ride; What Is This Lovely
Fragrance?; Have Yourself
a Merry Little Christmas;
Britten: Friday Afternooons; In
dulci jubilo; Silent Night, plus
works by Rutter Mel Tormé,
et al. Artists: John Rutter/The
Bach Choir; Royal PO. John Birch (Organ); (1 CD)
(Decca)
DEC B001609202 $17.48 On Sale
“If you believe that Christmas music should have a
warm, comfortable feel, then this CD will fit the bill
perfectly...” -Gramophone Magazine

Works: Traditional carols &
orchestral pieces including Delius’ “Sleigh Ride”, “Hark The
Herald Angels Sing”, “Mary’s
Boy Child”, “The Virgin Mary
Had A Baby Boy”, and works &
arrangements by John Rutter.
Artists: John Rutter/Cambridge Singers, Royal PO; Farnham Youth Choir (1
CD) (Collegium)
COL 133 $15.49 On Sale
“For those waiting for a new Rutter release, this
collection is well worth the wait and no doubt, it will
be beloved for years to come.”-Customer Review

❦The John Rutter Christmas Album

Christmas Night - Carols of the Nativity

Artists: John Rutter/
Cambridge Singers; City of
London Sinfonia. Stephen
Varcoe; Gerald Finley
(1 CD) (Collegium)
. COL 510 $11.99 On Sale
“Among the 23 pieces heard
here is Rutter’s masterpiece,
What Sweeter Music... sounding even more glorious than ever.” -Classics Today (10/10)

❦The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album

Works by: Victoria; Handel;
Kenneth Leighton; Britten;
Sweelinck; John Tavener;
Peter Warlock; Vaughan Williams Artists: John Rutter/
Cambridge Singers; City of
London Sinfonia; Stephen
Varcoe, baritone (1 CD) (Collegium)
COL 512 $11.99 On Sale
“There’s so much joy and beauty in these wellchosen, perfectly sung pieces that a simple numerical rating doesn’t do it justice. The sound is
appropriately full, vibrant, clear, and dynamic. Add
this to your list.” -Classics Today (10/10)

Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors,

Artists: Alastair Willis/Nashville SO; George Mabry,
Kevin Short, Kirsten Gunlogson, Bart LeFan (1 CD)
(Naxos)
NXS 8669019 $11.99 On Sale
Menotti’s ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’, the first
opera written for television, enjoys more than five
hundred performances annually. Sung in English,
brimming with tuneful melodies for both soloists
and chorus, the opera is a humorous and poignant
Christmas classic beloved by people of all ages.

❦Puer Natus Est: Tudor Music for Advent & Christmas
Works by: William Byrd; John Sheppard; Thomas
Tallis; John Taverner; Robert White Artists: Stile Antico (1 SA CD) (Harmonia Mundi) HAR 807517 $19.99
“Surely the pick of the new CDs for Christmas this
year.” -The Observer “Stile Antico brings delicious
balance and otherworldly beauty to this recording...” -New York Times

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Works: Favorites & less known fare including
Christmas Night, In the bleak mid-winter, Cherry
Tree Carol, O Tannenboum, A Virgin most pure,
Away in a manger, and much more! Artists: John
Rutter/Cambridge Singers (1 CD) (Collegium)
COL 106 $15.49 On Sale
“For me, there is no other CD of Christmas music
that captures the spirit of the holiday season like
this one does. The arrangements are simple and
the singing is divine.” - Paul Ballyk, HBDirect

Christmas Carols of Vaughan Williams

Works: Song of the Crib; The
Salutation Carol; How far is it
to Bethlehem; Hereford Carol;
While Shepherds Watched
Their Flocks By Night; On
Christmas Day Artists: Owain
A. Hughes/Cardiff Festival
Choir. (1 CD) (Griffin)
GRI 4072 $13.99
Ralph Vaughan Williams had a supreme gift for
melody and harmonizing folk tunes and these talents are brought together in this unique compilation.

❦Carols by Candlelight / Magdalen College

Works by: J.S. Bach; Britten; Buxtehude; Byrd;
John Gardner (1917-2011); Guerrero; William
Mathias; Mendelssohn; Palestrina; Reger; Peter
Warlock plus Chistmas Traditional. Artists: Bill
Ives/Magdalen College Choir; Martin Ford (Organ).
(1 CD) (Harmonia Mundi)
HAR 907495 $19.99
“[There are] just enough traditional favorites... to
comfortably tie the familiar with the less-commonly
heard pieces... Needless to say, this choir is always a pleasure to hear.” ClassicsToday 10/10

Mysterious Nativity / Lés Metaboles

Works: Contemporary Christmas music for choir
by Georgy Sviridov, Arvo Part, Dimitri Tchesnokov,
Vytautas Miskinis, Alfred Schnittke Artists: Léo
Warynski/Les Métaboles. (1 CD) (Brilliant Classics)
BLC 95080 $8.99
This release is a celebration of modern sacred
music, much of it Russian or East-European in
origin and all composed between 1983 and 2011.

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❦Christmas / Voces8

Works: We Three Kings;
Once in Royal David’s City;
Henryk Górecki: Totus tuus;
At the Manger Mary Sings;
Jesu, Swe є