Christmas Music

Diana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi

Caroline Fischer (piano)

Vladimir Dolezal (tenor), Josef Ksica (organ), Pavla Ksicova (contralto), Vaclav Sibera (bass), Dagmar Vankatova (soprano) Czech Madrigalists Orchestra, Czech Madrigalists Choir, Frantisek Xaver Thuri

Soile Isokoski (soprano), Pertti Eerola (organ) & Aale Lindgrén (cor anglais) YL Male Voice Choir, Matti Hyökki

Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten

Albrecht Mayer (oboe) The King’s Singers

Andrey Bliznyuk (priest) & Alexy Zaitsev, Vladislav Sokolov (deacon) Don Cossacks Choir Russia, Marcel Nicolajevich Verhoeff (direction)

Felix Klieser (horn)

The Parley of Instruments, Psalmody, Peter Holman

Daniel Behle (tenor) Oliver Schnyder Trio

Gemma Bertagnolli, Valentina Varriale, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Julien Behr, Clemens Heidrich Vocal Concert Dresden, Dresdner Instrumental-Concert, Peter Kopp

Readers include: Alec Guinness, Robert Donat, Richard Burton, Dulcie Gray, Dylan Thomas Robert Frost, Annette Daniels Taylor Basil Rathbone Claire Bloom, special Guest: Jonathan Jones

Les Pages du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Gaétan Jarry

Felipe Dominguez (organ)

Psalmody & The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman

Huw Williams (organ) (Roy Rashbrook tenor, Timothy Jones baritone, Robert Rice bass) (Jonathan Arnold baritone) (Christopher Royall alto, Roy Rashbrook tenor, Jon English tenor, Julian Clarkson bass) (Robert Rice baritone) (Flann Corcoran treble, Mervyn Collins tenor) St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott

Concerto Köln, Markus Hoffmann (concert-master and solo violin)

Plácido Domingo - Ying Huang - Michael Bolton, Wiener Symphoniker, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Elizabeth Ziegler (chorus master), Michael Bolton (tenor), Ying Huang (soprano) Steven Mercurio

Sofi Jeannin, Maîtrise de Radio France, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien (early music ensemble), Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Claire Lefilliâtre, Bruno Bonhoure, La Camera della Lacrime, Ensemble Clément Janequin (early music ensemble), Yves Castagnet, Henri Chalet, Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Amandine Beyer (violin), Céline Frisch (early keyboard instruments), Pablo Valetti, Café Zimmermann (early music ensemble), Bruno Cocset (cello), Ensemble Pygmalion (early music ensemble), Gli Incogniti (early music ensemble), Sophie Watillon, Thomas Dunford (lute), Lucile Boulanger (viola), Jean Rondeau (early keyboard instruments), Ensemble 415 (chamber ensemble), Le Concert Spirituel (early music ensemble), Zefira Valova, Les Ambassadeurs (early music ensemble), Vox Luminis, François Lazarevitch, Vincent Dumestre, Dominique Visse, Lionel Meunier, Raphaël Pichon, Chiara Banchini, Hervé Niquet, Alexis Kossenko

Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir & Baroque Orchestra, Jeffrey Skidmore

Plácido Domingo (tenor)

Munchener Bach-Choir, Hans-Martin Schneidt

Remigius Kammerchor Nagold, Anna-Katharina Kalmbach

Xavier de Maistre (harp)

Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers

Narrated by Stephen Fry BBC Singers & BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth

Dr. Franz Wasner

Leontyne Price (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Mark Tinkler, The Choir of St John’s Cambridge, Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge, Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Simon Preston (organ), Agnes Giebel (soprano), Eduardo Fernández (guitar), Julian Podger (tenor), John Angelo Messana (alto), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Robin Barter, David Briggs, Katherine Fuge (soprano), Nicola Jenkin (soprano), Eleazer de Carvalo (alto), Alan Loveday (violin), Gerald Finley (baritone), Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Anthony Way (treble), Lucy Wakeford (harp), John Scott (director), John Constable (organ), Tom Finucane, Wiener Philharmoniker, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Cantata Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Deutsche Bachsolisten, Monteverdi Choir, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Romanian National Choir "Madrigal-Marin Constantin", London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Sängerknaben, Bach Choir, St Paul’s Cathedral Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Herbert Adler, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir David Willcocks, George Guest, John Rutter, Barry Rose, Henry Lewis, Anton Guadagno, Helmut Winschermann, George Malcolm, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolai Korniev, Ion Marin, Stephen Cleobury, Uwe Christian Harrer, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, David Hill, Richard Bonynge, Carl Davis

Ritterbusch, Hoffmann-Mucher, Berne & Draijer Alsfelder Vokalensemble, Bremer Domchor & I Febiarmonici

Babette Dorn (piano)

Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Helmut Walcha (organ)

Ensemble Pantaleon

Karlstad Cc/Varmland Sinf

Franz Lehrndorfer (organ)

Marianne G. Nielsen (soprano), Sine Bundgaard (soprano), Malene Nordtorp (soprano), Birte Stokkebaek (alto) Musica Ficta, Bo Holten

Lennart Palm (piano), Stefan Ljungqvist (vocals), Lennart Palm (keyboards) Gothenburg Boys Choir, Fredrik Sixten

Tom Williams (alto), Adrian Kelly (tenor), Ben Toombs (alto), Martin Lucas-Smith (vocals), Tom Bullard (bass), Jan Lochmann (bass), Edward Price (bass), Aidan Oliver (bass) King's College Choir, Cambridge, Choral Scholars of King's College

Linda Sabee (alto), Wesley Rogers (tenor) Tudor Choir, The, Doug Fullington

Vokalensemble Frankfurt, Concerto Köln, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Dresdner Kammerchor & La Stagione Frankfurt, Ralf Otto, Hermann Max, Michael Schneider

The Galliard Brass Ensemble, The Harvard Glee Club, Concentus Musicus Vocal Ensemble, The Western Wind, The New York Harp Ensemble, Richard Price, F. John Adams, Arthur Maud, Aristid Von Würtzler

I Piccoli Musici, Mario Mora

Kremlin Museum Capella of Moscow, Gennady Dmitriak

Agnes Giebel, Ursula Holliger, Marie-Luise Schüpbach Münchner Kammerorchester, Hans Stadlmair

Synve Lundgren (soprano), Johanna Fernholm (Alt/contralto), Christian Gurtner (Traverso), Wolfgang Kogert (organ) & Markus Vorzellner (piano)

Bachchor Würzburg, Christian Kabitz

Miklos Spanyi (organ), Istvan Ella (organ), Dezso Karasszon (organ)

Denes Kovacs (violin), Gabor Lehotka (organ), Erzsebet Tusa (piano), Istvan Lantos (piano) Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian Chamber Orchestra, Capella Savaria, Budapest Kodaly Zoltan Girls' Choir, Lamberto Gardelli, Frigyes Sandor, Gyorgy Lehel, Vilmos Tatrai, Pal Nemeth, Ilona Andor

Concerto Malaga Los Romeros, Massimo Paris

Peter King (organ) Lichfield Cathedral Choir, Jonathan Rees-Williams

Jan Ernst (organ) Schweriner Blechbläser-Collegium

Michael Eulo (organ), Sebastian Hartung (cello), Karina Buschinger (violin), Aline Saniter (viola), Michael Friedinger (piano), Stefan Zenth (saxophone), Andreas Reif (double bass), Richy Denis (drums), Hubert Gassenschmidt (trumpet), Uwe Serr (organ), Stephan Rommelspacher (organ), Michael Culo (organ), Markus Eichenlaub (organ), Mainz Chamber Choir, Faure Quartet, Rottenburg Cathedral Boys Choir, Madchenkantorei an der Domkirche St. Eberhard, Max Planck Gymnasium Nurtingen Chamber Choir, BRASSerie, Rottweiler Munstersangerknaben, Landesjugendgospelchores Baden-Wurttemberg, Jugendkantorei der Domsingschule Trier, Stuttgart Hymnus Boys' Choir, Ludwigsburg Brass Quintet, Saarbrucken Guitar Ensemble, Milagro - Junges Vokalensemble Karlsruhe, Original Rheinland-Pfalz Musikanten, Camerata Vocale Freiburg, La Banda Palatina, Gaggenau Music School Accordion Orchestra, Ah, Cappella Vocal Ensemble, Madchenkantorei des Rottenburg Doms, Sudpfalzlerchen, Jung and Sing, Stuttgart Collegium Iuvenum, Jan Schumacher, Bernhard Kugler, Martin Ducker, Kampmann Martin, Peter Auginski, Jorg Sommer, Thomas Kiefer, Hanns-Friedrich Kunz, Andreas Reibenspies, Heinrich Holzli, Winfried Toll, Egbert Lewark, Hans Bogner, Matthias Heucher, Frank Leenen, Klaus Eichenlaub, Uli Linn, Friedemann Keck

Richard Novak (bass), Hana Skarkova (soprano), Marie Vrbova (alto), Petr Levicek (tenor) Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno, Czech Chamber Soloists, Petr Fiala

Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo-Soprano), Mercedes Sosa (Singer), Roberto Alagna (Tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor), Musica Sacra (Chorus), Magdalena Kozená (Soprano), Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, David Miller (Piano), Nicolas "Colacho" Brizuela (Guitar), Oscar Giunta (Double Bass), "Chango" Farias Gomez (Percussion), Estudio Coral de Buenos Aires (Aerophones), Marcelo Chiodi (Aerophones), Carlos López Puccio, Ricardo Hagman (Musical Director), Narciso Yepes (Guitar), Godelieve Monden (Guitar), Bengt Forsberg (Piano), Don Kosaken Chor (Chorus), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo-Soprano), Bryn Terfel (Bass-Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano), Christopher Herrick (Organ), Sumi Jo (Soprano), Ars Viva, Jascha Heifetz (Violin) Gabrieli Players, Gabrieli Consort, Capella Regia Musicalis, Philharmonia Orchestra, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New London Children's Choir, The Choir Of St John's, The London Oratory School Choir, Smithills School Jun, Richard Westenburg, Paul McCreesh, Robert Hugo, Antony Walker, Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro, Kurt Herbert Adler, Robin Smith, Simon Preston, David Firman, Salvador Camarata

Max Emanuel Cencic (soprano), Charles Humphries (countertenor), Ivan Sharpe (tenor) & Robert Torday (bass-baritone) Vienna Boys’ Choir, Chorus Viennensis & Academy of London, Peter Marschik

Erna Berger, Elisabeth Grümmer, Margot Guilleaume, Ursula Lüders, Lisa Otto, Maria Reith, Rita Streich, Gunthild Weber (sopranos), Josephine Varga, Annelies Westen (alto), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Walther Ludwig (tenor) Radio Orchester Berlin, RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester & RIAS Studioorchester, Günther Arndt, Fried Walter & Hans Carste

Andri Previn, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Kathleen Battle (soprano), Tony Falanga (bass), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Reginald Veal (bass), Wes Anderson (alto saxophone), Herbert Harris (tenor saxophone), Herbert Harris (soprano saxophone), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Nancy Allen (harp), Herlin Riley (drums), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), André Previn (piano), Crusher Bennett (percussion), James Saporito (drums), Victor See Yuen (percussion), Stephen Scott (piano), Wynton Marsalis Septet, The Christmas Concert Choir, The American Boychoir

Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg Conservatory, Elena Rubin (alto), Alexander Titov (piano), Valeria Stenkina (alto)

Henning Hansen (drum), Lars Ole Schmidt (trumpet), Hanne Hohwu Houmoller (soprano), Birgitte Mosegaard Pedersen (soprano), Ekaterina Michailova (soprano), Barbara Vestfalen Laursen (euphonium), Anne Mette Hansen (flugelhorn) Danish National Opera Choir, Prince of Denmark's Brass Ensemble, Giordano Bellincampi, Soren K. Hansen

Axel Kohler (counter-tenor), David Cordier (counter-tenor), Vincent Borrits (piano), Peter Dicke (harpsichord) Vienna Boys Choir, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, soloist, Cologne Radio Chorus, Helmut Froschauer, Uwe Christian Harrer, Peter Marschik

Westminster Concert Bell Choir, Kathleen Ebling Shaw