The Canadian Brass recommends this holiday album featuring fellow Canadian artists, Ensemble Vivant, at the core of which are a piano, violin and [more]

Like holly and ivy, Santa and Rudolf, the Canadian Brass and holiday music are one of the great pairings in history. Just as people wonder how it is that [more]

Joy to the World! Here is one of the most beautiful discs of Christmas carols to come along in years. Let's start with the singer: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a [more]

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is so glorious, we often lose track of the fact that most of it was written for a salary. This is certainly true of the [more]

This intriguing four-CD set allows listeners to experience Christmas as if they are listening to the radio during the later part of World War II (1943-45). In addition to 30 [more]

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

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

To lovers of all kinds of vocal music, the name Robert DeCormier is at once familiar and legendary. For more than four decades [more]

A Waverly Consort Christmas: From East Anglia to Appalachia finds the Waverly Consort, as directed by Michael Jaffe, performing traditional carols and hymns from [more]

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

Most collections of Christmas music emphasize the secular over the sacred, the celebratory holiday over the religious elements. Jingle [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]

Merry Jazzmas features 14 classic Christmas songs interpreted by leading jazz vocalists like Marcus Roberts, Vanessa Rubin, Antonio Hart, Roy Hargrove, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Lacy, and Steve Coleman. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Here's a question for the television quiz show Jeopardy. Is the jazz vocalist Mel Torme better known for his swinging uptempo songs or for his lovely [more]

This CD has ten performances of Christmas songs from 1990 plus a few earlier recordings (Chet Baker's "Winter Wonderland," Count Basie's "Jingle Bells," Dexter Gordon's "Have [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]

Santa's Top 10 is a collection of popular country and pop singers from the forties, fifties and sixties singing lighter, non-religious Christmas music. Light fare, such as "I Saw [more]

This is one of the better Christmas jazz collections available. The 15 selections each utilize different artists and were recorded especially for this CD. Kurt Elling's version of [more]

Although there are a multitude of box sets chronicling Bessie's entire recorded career, this two-disc, 36-song set sweats it down to the bare essentials in quite an effective [more]