Christmas Christmas with The Bevan Family Consort A tremendous Christmas album, warm and welcoming yet full of beauty and depth
21st Century Elisabetta Brusa's Requiem & Stabat Mater Elisabetta Brusa has a powerful compositional voice, and her music is served with the fervent advocacy of the Hungarian forces
Choral Sirens’ Song: The Sixteen in English Partsongs What's not to like? This is choral music, and choral performance, at its very best
Choral Advent Live, Volume 3: The Choir of St John's Cambridge returns Another bull's eye from St John's, Cambridge
Christmas “A Winter Breviary”: Choral Works for Christmas A lovely album, all the more cherishable for its wealth of new Christmas material. St Martin's Voices is a superb choir
Christmas A Choral Christmas This, along with Lisa Davidsen's Christmas from Norway. also on Decca, would make ideal presents!
21st Century REPOST: The Gospel of Mary: Hugi Guðmundsson's oratorio This is a major piece of music - Guðmunsson”s setting is as profound as the words of the Gospel itself
Rachmaninov Rachmaninov Vespers from Estonia This is a remarkable performance, capable of moving the listener at the deepest level
Schnittke Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance speaks straight from the heart
Telemann Telemann's Johannis-Oratorium: sheer beauty from the Kölner Akademie A simply gorgeous release ,Telemann at his very best throughout
Choral Magnificat 3: Nethsingha and St John's, Cambridge return Another triumph for Nethdingha and St John’s
16th Century Luca Marenzio: Missa Jubilate + The new Dynamic release is significant in so many respects ...
Haydn René Jacobs conducts Haydn’s Stabat Mater A beautiful, brilliant recording that deserves each and every accolade it will receive
21st Century Bent Sørensen’s stunning St Matthew Passion An astonishingly powerful modern-day St Matthew; and the perfect complement to JSB’s towering masterpiece
18th century Meeting Francesco Giovannini Tactus continues its valuable work with a release giaranteed to elevate the listener
Christmas Christmas Concerts from the SWR Vocal Ensemble This is a truly heart-warming two hours' worth of Christmas music
Christmas The Dawn of Grace: Christmas Music from Somerville College, Oxford A fine disc, imaginatively programmed, superbly performed and held in a wonderful recording
Christmas The First Nowell: Christmas Carols Through the Ages If you are looking for an inexpensive Christmas disc that mixes familiar and unfamiliar, all in impeccable performances and captured in a supreb recroding, look no furthe
Christmas Wishes and Candles: American Christmas Music It's that time of year again .. and this is a great way to launch our Christmas reviews
Bach Bach Masses, together at last: The Sixteen The performances are faultless, the spirit magnificent.
Choral Haydn Nelson Mass and more from much-missed Richard Hickox This is an umnissable, beautiful disc
Rossini Rossini Messa di Gloria: Pappano triumphs This is a remarkable disc, recorded in state-of-the-art sound - and what a line-up of soloists!