Whitbourn: Carolae – Music for Christmas

James Whitbourn is a Grammy® nominated composer whose music is internationally admired for its direct connection with performers and audiences, The Observer describing him as "a truly original communicator in modern British choral music." Carolae is a fusion of the great Christmas traditions at King’s College Cambridge and Princeton University Chapel, with the Missa Carolæ at its heart.

Christmas with Septura

Septura has carefully crafted a programme that explores virtuosity and festive celebration in pieces such as the Christmas Suite with music byJ.S. Bach, rapturous serenity from the likes of Robert Parson´s beautiful Ave Maria, and nostalgic favourites such as the ravishingly polyphonic The Three Kings by Peter Cornelius. Septura pushes its colours and combinations to the limit in re-imagining this varied selection of sublime Christmas music from the past 450 years.

Kim André Arnesen: Infinity

Arnesen’s association with Denver’s Kantorei resulted in their commissioning the warmly expressive ‘The gift I’ll leave you’ and the eloquent ‘Making or Breaking.’ ‘Even when He Is Silent’ sets a text written by a prisoner on a concentration camp wall, and Arnesen’s own summing-up of ‘Flight Song’ is that “music making is the song of new life, fragile as the fall of a feather.”

Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Thibaudet, Jean-Yves; Sykes, Jubilant; Budd, Jeremy; Washington Chorus; São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, members; Mestre, Paulo; Peabody Children's Chorus; Johnson Cano, Jennifer; Morgan State University Choir; Quint, Philippe; Maryland Boys Choir; Kelly, Thomas; Wulfman, Asher Edward; Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo; Nassief, Kelley; Bloom, Claire; Alsop, Marin; Walden, Timothy; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra;