In tandem with conductor Leonard Slatkin, Battle tackes nearly two dozen international holiday favorites on A Christmas Celebration, which compiles material drawn from [more]

White Christmas; The Christmas Song; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; The Little Drummer Boy; Rudolph the [more]

The Chieftains, now in their 34th season and regarded internationally as the most famous exponents of traditional Irish music in the world, present The Bells [more]

The richly textured sound of The Canadian Brass is especially thrilling at Christmas time, and this new release of holiday favorites has plenty of glad tidings to cheer about. An appealing [more]

Mass for Christmas Morning features Bagrieli Consort performing "Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning." Rather than divide the performance into multiple tracks, [more]

The Boston Pops Orchestra's White Christmas contains no real surprises, relying on a number of classical pieces balanced by a handful of [more]

The Boys Choir of Harlem is joined by guests the James Williams Trio and Dianne Reeves for Christmas Carols and Sacred Songs, an engaging collection of [more]

The Many Moods of Christmas is a collection of four medleys, each with a similar theme, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. The songs are performed [more]

Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Cantata No. 147; Wachet auf, Zion hears the Watchman singing, from Cantata No. 140; Sheep may Safely [more]

Let's Share Christmas is an engaging holiday record from John Pizzarelli. Featuring several songs arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel, Michel Legrand and Claire Fischer, [more]

An old adage has it that good music enters the ear with ease and leaves it with great difficulty. Celtic music fulfills this criterion [more]

There is a great tradition of Christmas Music from Germany, and this collection is a wonderful assemblage of incredibly beautiful music from the Baroque Era. The [more]

No instrumental group sounds more festive than a full-strength concert band, with its burnished brass, singing woodwinds, and rafter-rattling percussion. Yet [more]

Jingle Bell Swing is a refreshing idea in a Christmas collection, assembling a host of top-notch jazz musicians to breathe new life into the old holiday standbys. Big names [more]

In the deserts of Arizona and Texas lives the scraggly deerhorn cactus, a skinny little thing that usually grows in the shelter of some shrub. When conditions are [more]

This is not your traditional Christmas recording! No, this delightful CD will transport you to an entirely different time and a new sphere of holiday listening, [more]

There is no shortage of excellent Christmas music compilations from which one can choose, but most of the available sets feature fairly [more]

A Jazz Christmas, which is subtitled Hot Jazz For A Cool Night, has 14 performances of Christmas songs from 14 different groups recorded during [more]

Steve Tyrell has attracted enough attention for his two regular albums, A New Standard and Standard Time, that he is almost beyond journalists' usual tack of describing a new [more]