J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Johannette Zomer, Annette Markert, Gerd Turk, Peter Harvey
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society
Channel Classics - 2009
DSD 64
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Can’t wait for the NBS’s to record this in their All of Bach series. Until then this taster will have to do.
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Handel: Messiah
Lucy Crowe, Alex Potter, Michael Spyres, Matthew Brook
John Nelson, The English Concert & Choir
Erato - 24th November 2023
24/96
Big Wild
Superdream: Analog Sessions
(Electronica/Alternative/Pop-Rock)
Counter Records - 2019
16/44.1 (Roon DR: 8dB)
1 Like
A favourite Xmas album.
Shawn Colvin
Holiday Songs and Lullabies
CD RIP to NAS
16/44 - DR 9
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J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Christine Schafer, Bernarda Fink, Werner Gura, Gerald Finley, Christian Gerhaher,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - 9th November 2007
24/44.1
Bernarda Fink is my favourite mezzo-soprano… 
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Stile Antico: Puer natus est, Tudor Music for Advent & Christmas
Harmonia Mundi - 12th October 2010
24/88.2
DR: 15
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet)
Alexander Vedernikov, Orchestra of The Bolshoi Theatre Moscow
PentaTone Classics - 30th January 2007
DSD 64
DR: 17
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Ballet Suite
Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
(December 1969) Sony Classical - 2017 Remaster
24/192
DR: 15
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Merry Xmas to all.
Kids are away doing there stuff with the presents.
Fire is on though its about 12C outside.
Bacon sandwich and a glass of sherry beckons.
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Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Rosalind Elias & Jerome Hines
Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
(Classical/Opera)
Sony Classical - 2018
24/192 (Roon DR: 18dB)
1 Like
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend “Christmas Oratorio / Weihnachtsoratorium” 2007, Qobuz 16/44.1
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Stile Antico: A Wondrous Mystery, Renaissance Choral Music for Christmas
Harmonia Mundi - 9th October 2015
DSD 64
DR: 12
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Wishing you all a very happy Christmas, here are two wonderful seasonal recordings:
For a secular experience, one of the most Christmassy orchestral recordings:
Victor Healy-Hurtchinson : A Carol Symphony, Naxos, 16/44.1 Qobuz
And for a more religious outloook:
Stile Antico: A Spanish Nativity, Harmonia Mundi 16/441 Qobuz.
Although renaissance choral polyphony is not often my choice when it is a s beautiful as this I am persuaded to listen.
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Great to see you on What’s Spinning Pete. Merry Christmas! 
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