Artist	Song
I Virtuosi Di Lugano	Christmas concert
from Baroque Festival (2007)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra At Temple Square	The First Noel
from A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas (2000)
Harry Christophers & The Sixteen	In the Bleak Midwinter
from A Traditional Christmas Carol Collection from The Sixteen (2005)
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter & City of London Sinfonia	Love came down at Christmas
from John Rutter Christmas Album (2002)
Luciano Pavarotti	Agnus Dei
from Christmas Favorites from the World's Favorite Tenors (1993)
Academy of St. Martin In the Fields, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus & Sir Neville Marriner	Ding Dong! Merrily On High
from Christmas With the Academy (2000)
Debra Torok	Christmas Music: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
from Norman Dello Joio: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3 - Family Album, Five Images, Stage Parodies (2001)
Eugene Corporon & North Texas University Wind Ensemble	Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
from Composer's Collection: Percy Aldridge Grainger (2006)
Cleveland Sinfonia Sacra & Frances Gress Burmeister	The Nativity According to St. Luke: Nowel (Chorus)
from Thompson: The Nativity According to St. Luke (2001)
Choir Of King's College, Cambridge & Sir David Willcocks	Christ Was Born On Christmas Day
from Noël - Christmas At King's College (1995)
Antoni Wit, Olga Pasichnik, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Polish Radio Choir of Kraków	Twenty Polish Christmas Carols: Lullaby, Jesus
from Lutoslawski: Twenty Polish Christmas Carols - Lacrimosa - Five Songs (2005)
St.Elijah Childrens Choir	Sleep, O Jesus (Christmas Carol)
from Anthology Of Sacred Music (2002)
Robert Shaw & Robert Shaw Chamber Singers	Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: This Little Babe
from A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels on High (1997)
Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengan Jansson, Markus Leoson & Svante Henryson	Noel
from Home for Christmas (1999)
Harry Christophers & The Sixteen	The Sussex Carol
from A Traditional Christmas Carol Collection from The Sixteen (2005)
Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort	Here We Come A-Wassailing
from The Complete Vanguard Classics Recordings, Vol. 3: Music for the Christmas Season (2008)
Vienna Boys Choir, Peter Marschik & Instrumental Ensemble	Es Wird Schon Glei Dumpa
from Christmas Songs (1998)
Luciano Pavarotti, London Voices, National Philharmonic Orchestra & Kurt Herbert Adler	Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful)
from The Three Tenors at Christmas (2008)
MONKS CHOIR OF KIEV-PECHERSK LAVRA	Christmas Carol
from Selected Chants of the Russian Orthodox Church (2002)
Concerto delle Donne	The Nativity of Christ: Noël - Où s'en vont ces gays bergers?
from Music for the Virgin Mary: Celebrating 300 Years of Charpentier (2006)
Benjamin Nicholas	Welcome, Yule!
from The Three Kings - Music for Christmas from Tewkesbury Abbey (2007)
English String Orchestra & William Boughton	Sir Roger de Coverley: A Christmas Dance
from Finzi - Parry - Bridge - An English Suite (2006)
Gavin Sutherland & The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra	A Carol Symphony: I. Allegro energico
from Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony (2002)

Comment:

When you fire up these carols for your Christmas celebration, even folks who haven’t been bitten by the classical-music bug will warm right up to them, because they’ve been a familiar part of everybody’s holiday season for as long as roasting chestnuts and sipping eggnog. “The First Noel” is one of the world’s most well known Christmas songs, and even if you’ve heard it from countless roving carolers, you haven’t experienced it until you’ve gotten the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s take on it. Likewise, “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” is to Christmastime what the National Anthem is to ballgames, but the peerless piano of Debra Torok gives the timeless tune even more oomph. And you can almost see the snowflakes falling on the pines like Mother Nature’s own tinsel as the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chorus joyfully journeys through the uplifting airs of “Ding Dong! Merrily On High.”

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