As we proceed through the 12 Days of Christmas (ending on the night of January 5), there’s still time to “officially” enjoy some new seasonal
Themed Christmas programs such as this are common–and often unimpressive, unexceptional. Of course they’re common because it’s very easy to program a concert consisting of
In the grand tradition of “Christmas in Darmstadt,” Tinnitus Classics is proud to offer this, the world’s first and only completely dodecaphonic Christmas album. Words
In many respects Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) was an outlier, a
If you are a lover of Christmas music—carols, popular songs, and all manner of medleys and clever arrangements of such—and you miss this extraordinary recording
Some potential listeners might wonder why they should be interested in an hour-plus program consisting of 20 mostly unfamiliar Czech and Moravian Christmas carols. Perhaps
There’s nothing like Christmas to bring out a composer’s more unapologetically clever and enthusiastically indulgent, prodigiously inventive ideas, in apparent realization of childhood’s most extravagant
The reason to buy this set is for the Magnificat, the original but rarely recorded E-flat version from 1723, which certainly gets its most exciting
Here is as fine a survey of Advent and Christmas choral music as you’ll find these days, presented by one of the best and most
As with his recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, John Wilson similarly subjects the team’s follow-up musical Carousel to inclusive textual rectitude. Here Wilson aims