Jessye Norman – Christmastide
The late, great Jessye Norman, who passed away in September this year at the age of 74, is far from the only opera singer to release a Christmas album.
Charles Brown – Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs
Bells will be ringing at the start of Charles Brown’s soulful Sings Christmas Songs album. What follows is an unhurried collection of non-standard R&B Christmas tunes.
Jerry Barnes – The New Born King
Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine an album being released a different year than it came out, because it’s so much of its time.
Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
I don’t think I’m going out on a limb when I say that the true golden age for Christmas records in the United States was the early 1960s.
Madeline MacNeil – The Holly and the Ivy: Christmas Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Voice
As someone partly brought up in Hungarian culture and near the pulsating history of its folk music, the hammered dulcimer is close to my musical heart.
Lester Lanin – Christmas Dance Party
Is there any Christmas music that’s just for really rich people? Once, of course, the likes of Händel’s Messiah would be performed for royalty and the upper echelons of
Sia – Everyday is Christmas
When was the last time a major recording artist, at the very top of their career, released an all-original Christmas album? Not a single, or an album of holiday favourites, but an
Noelani and the Leo Nahenahe Singers – Hawaiian Christmas
There’s probably no genre of Christmas music copied as widely, among people with no connection to it, as Hawaiian music. Or, well, genre is not really the right word.
Cantares de Navidad Vol II
Are follow-up Christmas albums inevitably cursed to be lesser than their illustrious originals? Can a hit Christmas record never truly be replicated? Sometimes, it seems that way.
Rev. Audrey F Bronson and Becky Carlton, Minister of Music – Are You Ready For Christmas?
The folk movement has always had an interesting influence on Christmas music.