Christmas Stars!

Christmas is one of the most richly celebrated seasons around the world. While its focus rests on just a few days of the year, the wealth of music that has been written to mark its spirit and its narrative is astonishingly plentiful and varied, as reflected in this selection of current releases from across our catalogues. Featuring music that turns between jollity and piety, the programmes radiate seasonal music that is both comfortingly familiar and refreshingly novel. May you spend a very happy Christmas with Naxos.

To browse our latest catalogue of music for Christmas, featuring albums from labels across the Naxos Music Group, follow this link.

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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, N.A.:
Christmas Eve

Vasiliev • Muzychenko • Popov • Shkoza • Tikhomirov
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
Chor der Oper Frankfurt
Weigle
Listen to an extract from Act IV:
Epilogue
8.574575
Listen to Away in a Manger (arr. D. Hill)
8.574576
POSTON, E.:
Carols and Anthems

St Albans Cathedral Girls Choir
Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral
Morrell • Winpenny
Listen to an extract from The Nativity:
And while they lived in joy and bliss
SWR19131CD
Listen to an extract from Hely-Hutchinson’s A Carol Symphony:
IV. Allegro energico
VOX-NX-3027CD
A Christmas Concert with Robert Shaw
Seidel
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Shaw
Listen to an extract from Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ:
The Shepherds’ Farewell
2.110763 [DVD]
MENOTTI, G.C.:
Amahl and the Night Visitors

Ishijima • Kaiser • Schweinester • Borchev • Schwinghammer
Arnold Schoenberg Chor • Wiener Symphoniker
Loddgard • Herheim
Also available on Blu-ray Video (NBD0175V)


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