J.S. Bach / Mields/ Feudel - Christmas OratorioFor many, the Christmas holiday season would be incomplete without the resounding drum roll and trumpet fanfare that opens Bach's "Oratorium auf die Heilige Weynacht" ("Oratorio for the holy Christmas"). Ever since it was first performed by the Thomaskantor between Christmas Day in 1734 and Epiphany 1735 in Leipzig's two main churches of St. Thomas and St. Nikolai, Bach's six part musical masterpiece has become a cornerstone of the city's identity and

Bob Crosby and John Scott Trotter

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Sunwook Kim has received outstanding international reviews for his previous solo recordings of piano works by Beethoven

including "See See Rider

the repertoire ranging across both new compositions and imaginative interpretations of Great American Songbook standards

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Antoine Houdar de La Motte

It's a substantial and representative trawl across their primary decade or so as recording artists and an entertaining showcase for their highly distinctive style

Duane helped inspire a generation of teenagers to pick up a guitar Vinyl LP pressing

authentic and atmospherically dense "La Bohème" at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia

this last concert and therefore also last concert recording of Claudio Abbado

Canticum Novum continues at Ambronay Editions it's journey to the heart of the medieval Iberian Peninsula