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, Romantic (era)
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Instrumental
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Special offer. On Christmas Night
RecommendedCarols from St John’s College, Cambridge
John Challenger (organ)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
The collective vocal heft of the ensemble's young choral scholars remains a potent weapon under Andrew Nethsinga's direction. He's a man of musical refinement, however, one ready and able to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Special offer. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve
Julia Muzychenko (Oksana), Enkelejda Shkoza (Solokha), Andrei Popov (Devil), Georgy Vasiliev (Vakula), Alexey Tikhomirov (Chub), Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern-Und Museumsorchester, Sebastian Weigle
Some will doubtless be glad to enjoy Rimsky’s ravishing score without Loy’s visuals... It’s also hugely enjoyable in its own right, throwing a particular spotlight on Sebastian Weigle’s affectionate,... — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey
RecommendedRobert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
An ambitious and superbly sung programme, sympathetically framed within the choir's spaciously atmospheric home acoustic. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2008
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A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service
RecommendedChoir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
This is a priceless record not only of the centenary of the most famous carol service in the world, but of the last to be directed by Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years at the helm of chapel... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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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
2 CDs
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Special offer. Bob Chilcott: The Rose in the Middle of Winter
RecommendedCarols by Bob Chilcott
Commotio, Matthew Berry
Chilcott share Rutter's facility with melody...An ex-chorister himself, he also sets words very naturally....Chilcott's music is often more demanding than Rutter's, but that's no problem for... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
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The quality of Froundjian’s playing is evident in the delicately nuanced account of Palmgren’s Snowflakes, which opens the programme…If you tend to get all carolled out over the Christmas season,... — More…
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Christmas Music Through The Ages
50 pieces from 6th to 20th centuries
Richard Wistreich (bass), The York Waits, The Choirs of Prinknash and Stanbrook Abbeys, Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band, Sneak's Noyse, Caroline Trevor (contralto), The Rose Consort of Viols, Kate Eckersley (soprano), Tim Laycock (vocals), Sun Life Stanshawe Band, Dartington Hall Handbells, Dartington...
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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$13.25Downloads
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