Which are your favorite Christmas recordings?

[Jose Echenique]

Let´s name some of our favorite Christmas recordings.

These are some of mine:

[Jose Echenique]

The Bach Christmas Oratorio:

[Jose Echenique]

And of course, the Messiah:









And I still enjoy this recording because of the amazing soloists:

[Jose Echenique]

Kitsch opera singers Christmas recitals, but WHAT VOICES!

[markof]

Many thanks for sharing - what a fantastic resource.
I'll be ploughing through your list on qobuz over the next week :-)

Here are a few favourites of mine.







Mark

[mcq]

Some of my favourite DVDs that I love to watch over Christmas:

Harnoncourt:






Gardiner:




Herreweghe:

[fergus]

You outdo yourself once again Pepe with your wonderful catalogue.

I have been listing some of my favourite Christmas recordings in the Listening thread over the last week or so, so I will not repeat them here.
However, for me, Christmas music is essentially JS Bach and Charpentier.

You have listed a number of different versions of pieces of music that I already own so I will no doubt be investigating those.

[Jose Echenique]

Ha, ha it was cold yesterday and I had a lot of free time.

[Seán]

What a great idea for a thread.

Gardiner's MAGNIFICENT 6 cd set:


Herreweghe's 3 cd set:


Harnoncourt:


Christmas Oratorio:


I have just included this to show off, it's not one of my favourites:

[Jose Echenique]

The Gardiner Bach cantatas are definitely essential Seán, and I would add Herreweghe and Koopman, all exquisite in their different ways..

Criminally, I also forgot to include the incomparable Buxtehude Christmas cantatas, a must next to the Christmas tree.