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, Mark Padmore (tenor)
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedLynda Russell (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor, Evangelist), Michael George (bass, Herod), Libby Crabtree (angel, Echo)
The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers
Like Gardiner… the Sixteen's recording throbs with the joy of it all. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2005, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
2 CDs
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Barbara Schlick, Sandrine Piau, Andreas Scholl, Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Christie negotiates both wide-eyed wonderment of the Nativity and the pathos of Part II with aplomb in a performance underpinned by luxury casting and instrumental finesse. — More…
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Susan Gritton (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass)
Tenebrae Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Sir Colin Davis's way with Messiah, as recorded live at the Barbican last December, is old-fashioned by present-day standards. His soloists are all good. The Tenebrae Choir, with its thirty-odd... — More…
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Bach composed Christmas music for more than 30 years of his professional life, but none in such a short a space of time as when he arrived at Leipzig in 1723. He used the relatively quiet Advent... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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The Christmas Story
Ruth Holton, Evelyn Tubb (sopranos), James Bowman, Jonathan Kenny (countertenors), John Mark Ainsley, Andrew King, Mark Padmore (tenors), Robert Evans, Michael George, Charles Pott (basses)
The King's Consort, Robert King
Ravishing... the sheer beauty of the sound, immeasurably enhanced by a warm, sonorous recording, sweeps us into the narration of the familiar story — More…
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Special offer. J S Bach - Christmas Cantatas
Vasiljka Jezovsek, Sarah Connolly, Mark Padmore & Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent & Collegium Vocale Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe
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Special offer. JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata
Carolyn Sampson, Ingeborg Danz, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy, Sebastian Noack
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
The soloists excel; the music-making is robust yet yielding - Happy Christmas indeed! — More…
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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
Christiane Oelze (Soprano), Christopher Maltman (Baritone), Mark Padmore (Tenor), Ralf Lukas (Bass), Bernhard Hartmann (Bass), Frank Bossert (Tenor)
Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roger Norrington
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Christmas Through the Ages
Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments, The King’s Consort, The Sixteen, Westminster Cathedral Choir, et al.
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