Music for Several Instruments

Kristin Korb: That Time of Year Every year I'm on the lookout for a special new jazz Christmas album, and I've found one that w...

Das Neugeborne Kindelein: Christmas Cantatas by Buxtehude, Telemann and J. S. Bach Although we are deeply indebted to the light, becaus...

Christmas At Steinway Hall: arrangements for jazz piano 'Tasteful jazz arrangements', it says on the back cover, but these ...

Lux: Music for Christmas  Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. I've talked before abou...

Choral Music for Christmas: works by J.S. Bach, Zelenka, Mendelssohn, Reger, Saint-Saens, Handel & others Summer is winding down; ...

David Ian, Vintage Christmas Trio In Joel Dinnerstein's  The Origins of Cool in Postwar America we learned about the jazz roots of...

The new Telemann Corelli Bach album by the new Swedish group  Höör Barock is full of special touches, with a background of stylish, his...

The new Novum Christmas CD Nowell Sing We! from Robert Quinney and his Choir of New College Oxford is in the classic English choral trad...

The Sixteen's Song of the Nativity is an outstanding Christmas disc of the more contemplative kind. There are celebratory pieces her...

The Montreal-based Arion Orchestre Baroque, led by Alexander Weimann provides an authentic 18th century German Christmas celebration in t...

Brass music is an important part of the Christmas season, so it's nice to see this Naxos album (due November 11, 2016) from the Lond...

If there's one classical CD I've listened to more than any other in the past decade, it's this one with Les Violons du Roy u...

Okay, here we go. The Christmas albums for review are starting to (virtually) pile up, and you all probably want some guidance about what to...

The music on this new Blue Heron disc is what one might have heard as Christmas approached in an English church in the 1440s. Things have...

From October 3, 2015: This is the first disc from a fine new choir, Cappella SF, led by Ragnar Bohlin, Director of the San Francisco S...

February 1, 2015: A postal snafu delayed this disc , so I didn’t get to hear it until the New Year. This gives me the chance to listen ...

From October 30, 2014: The new BIS album from the excellent New York Polyphony includes a few old standbys; we all love the traditiona...