1980s: Working List of Classical and Choral Christmas Recordings from the 1980s

 

1980s: Working List of Classical and Choral Christmas Recordings

By R. Rojas

The descriptions below are those of record labels or the ensembles and are not reviews by the Christmas Carols Blog. Some have been altered for better web viewing. Don't fret, we left the King's English intact. Links to the ensemble or record label have been included to make purchasing easier. We will be adding some link where they have been left off, as well as adding tracks, as we get the information. If we missed your new recording, email us at: christmascarolblog@gmail.com.

1982

1 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Procession
2 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Wolcum Yole!
3 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: There Is No Rose
4 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: That Yonge Child - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/Andrew Olleson
5 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Balulalow - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/Edward Harris
6 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: As Dew In Aprille
7 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: This Little Babe
8 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Interlude - Frances Kelly
9 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: In Freezing Winter Night
10 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Spring Carol
11 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Adam Lay I-Bounden
12 A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Recession
13 Te Deum in C - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/Edward Harris
14 Hymn To St. Peter - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/Andrew Olleson
15 Hymn To The Virgin - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/Edward Harris/Jonathan Cooke/Teehan Page/Nigel Howells
16 Hymn To St. Cecilia - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/Edward Harris/Mark Slater/Niall Weir/Nigel Howells

ASV

1983

ASV

1. Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day  - John Gardiner

2. Remember, O Thou Man n- Arthur Oldham

3. I sing of a Maiden - Patrick Hadley

4. Sing Lullaby - Herbert Howells

5. Here is the Little Door - H. Howells

6. Sir Christemas - Willaim Mathias

7. In Dulci Jubilo - Pearhall

8. Jesu, as thou art our saviour - B. Britten

9. O little one sweet - arr. J.S. Bach

10.The Crown of Roses - Tchaikovsky

11. A Spotless Rose - H. Howells

12. Alleluya, a new work is come on hand - Peter Wishart

1985

The University of Oxford's world famous choir performs a selection of famous and lesser-known carols.

1 O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
2 Adam Lay Ybounden, Carol (English)
3 Owt of Your Slepe Aryse (15th C. English), Carol
4 The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (Birjina Gaztettobat Zegoen, Basque Carol)
5 A Spotless Rose, for Chorus
6 Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
7 In the Bleak Midwinter
8 The Holly and the Ivy (English)
9 I Wonder As I Wander (American)
10 A Babe Is Born, for Chorus & Organ, Op. 55
11 Sussex Carol ('On Christmas Night')
12 This Is the Truth Sent from Above (English)
13 A Virgin Most Pure (English)
14 Here Is the Little Door, Carol-Anthem for Chorus
15 Alleluia: A New Work Is Come on Hand
16 Coventry Carol (2): 'Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child'
17 In Dulci Jubilo (Pi' Cantiones)
18 There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (English)
19 Rocking Carol (Czech)
20 Wassail Song ('Here We Come A-Wassailing'), Carol (A.K.A. 'Here We Come A-Caroling')
21 Once in Royal David's City, Carol

CRD Records Ltd.

1986

1983

1984

1 Trad. Up! Awake! from Highest Steeple (Wachet Auf!) (Arr.

Jacob Praetorius) 2 Arthur Oldham Remember O Thou Man 3 Trad. There Stood in Heaven a Linden Tree (Arr. G.H. Palmer) 4 Peter Wishart Alleluya, a New Work Is Come on Hand 5 Charpentier Salve Puerile (Arr. John Rutter) 6 Trad. the Holly and the Ivy (Arr. H. Walford Davies) 7 Poston Jesus Christ the Apple Tree 8 Praetorius Resonet in Laudibus (Arr. Herbert Birtner) 9 Trad. Ding Dong! Merrily on High (Arr. Charles Wood) 10 Maxwell Davies Nowell (Out of Your Sleep Arise) 11 Hammerschmidt Alleluja! Freuet Euch, Ihr Christen Alle 12 Trad. Up! Good Christen Folk, and Listen (Arr. G.R. Woodward) 13 Trad. in Dulci Jubilo (Arr. R.L. Pearsall) 14 Mendelssohn Hark! the Herald Angels Sing 15 Scheidt Puer Natus in Bethlehem 16 Trad. Rocking (Arr. Sir David Willcocks) 17 John Gardner Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day 18 Trad. Illuminare Jerusalem 19 Britten a Shepherd's Carol 20 Trad. Good King Wenceslas

Eloquence

1984

‎ Deutsche Grammophon

1986

Chandos

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%208485

1999 Editor's note: I have information of a compact disc version of this released in 2007, mentioning that it's original release was in 1999. Fielder died in 1979, so release date may be inaccurate. 1 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town 2 Sleigh Ride 3 Parade of the Wooden Soldiers 4 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Boston Pops Orchestra 5 Winter Wonderland - Boston Pops Orchestra 6 Sleigh Ride, No. 3 7 March of the Toys 8 Silent Night 9 The Little Drummer Boy 10 Here We Come A-Caroling/O Christmas Tree/I Saw Three Ships Legacy Recordings

1987

Editor's note: I have information of a compact disc version of this released in 2007, mentioning that it's original release was in 1999. Fielder died in 1979, so release date may be inaccurate.

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1 A Christmas Festival - Boston Pops Orchestra 2 White Christmas 3 Sleigh Ride 4 Winter Wonderland - Boston Pops Orchestra 5 Parade of the Wooden Soldiers 6 The Little Drummer Boy 7 Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (What Child Is This?) 8 The Toy Trumpet 9 Carol of the Bells 10 March of the Toys 11 Dream Pantomime 12 Sleigh Ride, No. 3 13 Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy - Leo Litwin 14 Here We Come A-Caroling/O Christmas Tree/I Saw Three Ships 15 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Boston Pops Orchestra 16 Silent Night 17 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town RCA 1985 Performed by the choir of new college, oxford and the collegium novum ensemble. Edward Higginbottom, director. Howard Moody on the organ. Musical Heritage Society

Editor's Note: This is probably a new cover. There was a release in 1988 using another cover.

Christmas in Leipzig was always a busy time for Johann Sebastian Bach. Each year between December 25 and January 6, a period of just 13 days, no less than six cantatas were required, as well as other concerted music. Bach's first Christmas in Leipzig as the kantor of the Thomaskirche, 1723-24, was preceded by an extraordinary period of creativity. At this time he composed or revised for the 13-day period from Christmas Day to Epiphany the first version of the Magnificat (BWV 243a) and six cantatas.

—Robin A. Leaver


Cantata BWV 63: Christen ätzet diesen Tag
**-**1. Chorus: Christen ätzet diesen Tag
2. Alto Recitative: O selger Tag!
3. Aria (Duet): Soprano, Bass: Gott, du hast es wohl gefüge
4. Tenor Recitative: So kehret sich nun heut
5. Aria (Duet): Alto, Tenor: Ruft und fleht das Himmel, an
6. Bass Recitative: Verdoppelt euch demnach, ihr heissen Andachtsflammen
7. Chorus: Höchster, schau in Gnaden an
Cantata BWV 65: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen
8. Chorus: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen
9. Chorale: Die Kön'ge aus Saba kamen dar
10. Bass Recitative: Was dort Jesaias vorhergesehn
11. Bass Aria: Gold aus Ophir ist zu schlecht
12. Tenor Recitative: Verschmähe nicht
13. Tenor Aria: Nimm mich dir zu eigen hin
14. Chorale: Ei nun, mein Gott, so fall ich dir
From the Mass in B Minor BWV 232
15. Chorus: Sanctus

https://www.sonoluminus.com/dorian/christmas-in-leipzig

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1986-7 1 O Come, O Come Emanuel 2 Once In Royal David's City 3 Unto Us A Child Is Born 4 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 5 Good Christian Men Rejoice 6 O Holy Night 7 The Holly And The Ivy 8 See Amid The Winter Snow 9 I Saw Three Ships 10 This Christmastide 11 Coventry Carol 12 In The Bleak Mid-Winter 13 Silent Night 14 Angels We Have Heard On High 15 We Three Kings Of Orient Are 16 Joy To The World 17 Adeste Fideles 18 Amen

Phillips

1 Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Adapted By w. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival) 2 A Virgin Most Pure (English) 3 Work(S): Jingle Bells / Star of Bethlehem 4 Work(S): Carol Medley: Angels from the Realms of Glory / Away in a Manger / O Little Town of Bethlehem / the 5 Work(S): Carol Medley: As with Gladness Men of Old / Glory to God in the Highest / See Amid the Winter Snow 6 O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) 7 Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Silent Night) 8 Down in Yon Forest, Carol (English) 9 Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582) 10 Work(S): Carol Medley: Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep (Rocking Carol) / Little Drummer Boy / Deck the Hall (Nos 11 Work(S): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night / Auld Lang Syne (Followed By Change Ringing from the 1986 1 Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly 2 Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming 3 Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella 4 The First Noel 5 Angels We Have Heard on High 6 We Three Kings of Orient Are 7 O Come, All Ye Faithful 8 O Sanctissima 9 O Tannenbaum 10 O Come, O Come, Emanuel 11 Good King Wenceslas 12 Silent Night, Holy Night 13 Joy To The World 14 The Twelve Days of Christmas 15 Coventry Carol 16 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 17 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 18 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 19 Good Christian Men, Rejoice 20 O Holy Night 21 What Child Is This? 22 Wassail Song 23 O Little Town of Bethlehem 24 Away In A Manger 25 We Wish You a Merry Christmas 1981 Composer arr. Edmund Walters Traditional Composer arr. Edgar Pettman Old Basque Noel Composer Edmund Walters Composer William Byrd Composer arr. Edmund Walters Spanish Anon Composer harmonized J.S. Bach Old German Melody Composer Harold Darke Composer arr. Edmund Walters German Traditional Chandos https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%206672 1985 Chandos https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%208436

1989

CRD Records LTD.

1987

Music by Holst and Walton provides [a] must for Yuletide
music in the air (San Francisco Chronicle).

Nimbus Records

1983

1 Good Christian Men Rejoice 2 Silent Night 3 Patapan 4 O Come, All Ye Faithful 5 O Sanctissima 6 Joy to the World 7 Away in the Manger 8 Fum Fum Fum: March of the Kings 9 What Child is This 10 Hark the Herald Angels Sing 11 Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella 12 Angels We Have Heard on High 13 Break Forth, O Beateous, Heavenly Light 14 The First Nowell 15 O Little Town of Bethlehem 16 I Saw Three Ships 17 Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly Telarc

1980

16 favourite carols including Once in Royal David's City, Away in a Manger & Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Ding dong! Merrily on high, God rest you merry, gentlemen, Unto us is born a son, Stille Nacht.

Decca

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Priory Records releases Christmas at Ripon Cathedral

 

Priory Records releases Christmas at Ripon Cathedral

Editor's note: Description of that of the Priory Records.

This is the first recording of music from Ripon Cathedral under their present director of music, Ronny Krippner.

It is a lovely collection of popular carols which this newly assembled choir perform admirably.

https://www.prioryrecords.co.uk/Ripon-Cathedral-Choir-Krippner-Carols

A Few Christmas Gems in Ex Cathedra's Recording of Liz Dilnot Johnson's Choral Works: "Gentle Flame"

 

A Few Christmas Gems in Ex Cathedra's Recording of Liz Dilnot Johnson's Choral Works: "Gentle Flame"

Editor's Note: Description is the label's own.

We are thrilled to present this CD of music by Liz Dilnot Johnson in her 60th birthday year. We have loved working closely with Liz for several years, as she explains in the booklet:

“This album celebrates my creative relationship with Ex Cathedra over the last nine years and as [a] composer-in-residence since 2021. The recording was made in three intense days at the Bradshaw Hall (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), the warm but clearly defined acoustic revealing the choir’s exceptional vocal skills.

“The first eight tracks span nearly forty years of my composing life, up to A Wild Midwinter Carol [2022] – the first of my new set of ‘eco-songs’. The second half of the album presents When A Child Is A Witness – requiem for refugees – one of the largest and most ambitious collaborations with Ex Cathedra so far, and winner of an Ivors Composer Award 2022.”

Editors notes: This album includes four Christmas tracks:

For This Babe

Magi

Gentle Flame

A wild midwinter carol

Blake Reimagined (a la Christmas according to the composer)

Christmas Carols Blog: Our thanks to the composer for informing us of the Christmas pieces on this album.

https://excathedra.co.uk/recordings/johnson-gentle-flame/

Michael Maliakel & Lesley Nicol Guest on New Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir Recording

 

Michael Maliakel & Lesley Nicol Guest on New Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir Recording

Editor's Note: Description is the label's own.

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square are joined by award winning Indian American actor and singer Michael Maliakel (star of Disney's Aladdin on Broadway), and Lesley Nicol (known for role as Mrs. Patmore in Downton Abbey), to present a gorgeous collection of beloved Christmas songs as well as a reading of the Christmas story in Luke 2. Recorded live in 2023 in the Conference Center at Salt Lake City UT, for a collective audience of roughly 60,000.

Jacques Arcadelt's Missa Noe Noe presented in Ridercar Recording by Capella Mediterranea

 

Jacques Arcadelt's Missa Noe Noe presented in Ridercar Recording by Capella Mediterranea

Editor's Note: We missed this one. This was released in 2023. Description below is the label's own.

Given that not one of the Masses by Jacques Arcadelt was included in our boxed set that revealed his immense musical personality to the world, we now remedy this situation with an indispensable addition. 

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon chose the Missa Noe Noe, which is presented here in the context of the Christmas liturgy. We have also included motets not only by Arcadelt but also by Josquin Desprez, as he was the great model for musicians of his generation. 

The recording ends resoundingly with Josquin’s imposing "Benedicta es coelorum regina" for six voices, although in an expanded version for twelve voices by Jean Guyot de Châtelet (1512 – 1588): another Walloon composer to be discovered!


https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/arcadelt-missa-noe-noe

Bevan Family gives Holiday Cheer in New Christmas Album on Signum Classics

 

Bevan Family gives Holiday Cheer in New Christmas Album on Signum Classics

Editor' note: Description below is the label's own.

Following their first successful album on Signum Records, the Bevan Family Consort present a collection of Christmas Carols and compositions for Advent. The collection includes familiar works such as Darke’s setting of ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, which is presented here in a new arrangement by Francis Bevan and was as works newly transcribed for this album such as Palestrina’s ‘Missa sine nominee a5’ and Weelkes ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’. ‘Lute-book lullaby’ also features, composed by original Bevan Family Choir founder David Bevan.

1 Alleluia. Veni Domine noli tardare
2 Rorate cæli (Transcr. Francis Bevan)
3 In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Francis Bevan)
4 Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Kyrie
5 The Holly and the Ivy (Arr. H. Walford Davies)
6 Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Gloria
7 There is a Flower
8 Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Credo
9 The Holy Boy
10 Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Sanctus
11 Gloria in excelsis Deo (Transcr. Francis Bevan)
12 Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Agnus Dei
13 There is no rose
14 Ave Maria … virgo serena
15 Lute-book Lullaby
16 Benedicamus Domino
17 The Virgin Unspotted
18 Here is the Little Door
19 O magnum mysterium (Transcr. Francis Bevan)
20 Jesu dulcis memoria

Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort - Signum Records

2013: Working List of New Classical and Choral Christmas Recording

2013: Working List of New Classical and Choral Christmas Recording

Compiled by R. Rojas

The descriptions below are those of record labels or the ensembles, and not reviews by the Christmas Carols Blog. Some have been altered for better web viewing. Don't fret, we left the King's English intact. Links to the ensemble or record label have been included to make purchasing easier. If we missed your new recording, email us at: christmascarolblog@gmail.com.

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park has the distinction of being the third oldest, continuously operating, Bach Festival in the United States, as well as being Central Florida's oldest operating performing arts organization. 

The Bach Festival Society is well known internationally and has enjoyed a long tradition of bringing world-class talent to Central Florida. Since its inception, the Society has expanded its offerings beyond the annual Bach Festival to include Choral Masterworks and Visiting Artists performances, as well as a variety of educational and community outreach programs to encourage participation in music at all levels. 

The Christmas season represents a time for peace and hope, and through our music we express these sentiments. May this recording be part of what opens your heart to the joy of this special season and may it continue to resonate with you throughout the year. 

On the cusp of our 80th anniversary, the Bach Festival Society has a musical legacy in Winter Park and Central Florida, but our holiday traditions are much more recent. 

The Society has been associated with the Morse Museum of American Art through it's annual Christmas in the Park festivities for almost 30 years and has been producing it's own Christmas concerts for the past 10. Christmas may have come late to us, but we have embraced it in a grand fashion. 

 The Society proudly presents this holiday celebration featuring original versions of traditional favorites, with many arrangements written just for us. From all of us at the Bach Festival, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The celebration of the Nativity has always been a source of inspiration for composers. The different elements of the evangelical narrative evoke numerous images: tender feelings before the Baby Jesus; the gentleness of his mother, the Virgin Mary; the procession of the three Wise Men; the angelic choirs in Heaven; and these shepherds gathered in the manger. All that appears in the musical repertoire linked to this holiday, as well as the presence of colourful instrumentations and themes connected to folk traditions. This set, released by Ricercar, brings together all these elements, drawn from the repertoires of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/baroque-christmas

Welcome all Wonders: A Christmas Cantata is a large-scale work for choir, organ, and trumpet spanning 15 movements. It celebrates the Christmas story through an imaginative selection and juxtaposition of poetry and liturgical texts, and provides a multifaceted telling of the familiar narrative. 

The celebratory aspects of Christmas are tainted by darker themes that are inherent to the story but are easily overlooked, culminating in an enlightened and engaging work that explores the Christmas story in a profound manner.

The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Its wide-ranging repertory includes a rich array of Renaissance and Baroque music and contemporary works.


1. Prelude

2. Alleluia

3. A virgin shall conceive

4. Ye heavens! From high the dewy nectar pour

5. Today is the beginning of our salvation

6. Oh! little blades of grass

7. Journey to Bethlehem

8. I saw a stable

9. Shepherds, rejoice!

10. See how from far, upon the eastern road

11. Tribus miraculus ornatum

12. The Slaughter of the Innocents

13. But peaceful was the night

14. Ave maris stella

15. In the beginning

https://signumrecords.com/product/david-bednall-welcome-all-wonders/SIGCD335/

The Penalosa-Ensemble is an a cappella quartet consisting of four early vocal music experts: Susan Eitrich, Sebastian Mory, Joerg Deutschewitz and Klaus F. Mueller. The CD presents a cappella works by Hans Leo Hassler for advent and Christmas.

Carus-Verlag

Gary Schocker is best known as the most published composer for the flute, but also is a world-renowned flutist. He has turned his attention to composing for solo harp, an instrument he is now playing. 

For this disc he has arranged 21 favorite Christmas carols for harp, performed by the ever-popular harpist Emily Mitchell. Ms. Mitchell's 30-year career includes numerous recordings, as well as performing and teaching around the world. In the words of the Washington Post, "Mitchell commands a vivid palette of colors and uses them with imagination."

https://www.albanyrecords.com/catalog/troy1438/

An inspiring sequence of Christmas music ancient and modern, culminating in Britten’s virtuosic choral masterpiece, A Boy Was Born: Paul McCreesh leads the Gabrieli Consort (joined by the Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir) in this evocative and contrasting collection of festive works that samples works from the 12th century to the present day.

1. Adam Lay Ybounden – Matthew Martin – 3.39
2. Veni, Veni Emanuel – Anonymous (13th century) – 3.30
3. Long, Long Ago – Herbert Howells – 6.00
4. Lullay, Lullay: Als I Lay on Yoolis Night – Anonymous (14th century) – 7.16
5. Balulalow – Francis Pott – 2.56
6. Qui Creavit Celum – Anonymous (13th/14th century) – 2.52
7. The Three Kings – Jonathan Dove – 4.37
8. This Endere Nyghth I Saw a Syghth – Anonymous (15th/16th century) – 7.06
9. A Hymn of The Nativity – Kenneth Leighton – 6.54
10. Letabundus – Anonymous (12th/13th century) – 3.23
11. A Boy Was Born: I. A Boy Was Born – Benjamin Britten – 2.15
12. A Boy Was Born: II. Lullay, Jesu – Benjamin Britten – 3.43
13. A Boy Was Born: III. Herod – Benjamin Britten – 2.03
14. A Boy Was Born: IV. Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour – Benjamin Britten – 3.08
15. A Boy Was Born: V. The Three Kings – Benjamin Britten – 3.42
16. A Boy Was Born: VI. In the bleak mid-winter – Benjamin Britten – 5.19
17. A Boy Was Born: VII. Noel! – Benjamin Britten – 9.00

https://signumrecords.com/product/incarnation/SIGCD346/#

Established in 2010, the semi-professional Chorale focuses on presenting sacred music from many different sacred traditions in the sacred space originally intended by the composer. This stunning live album combines recordings from the popular 'Candlelight Christmas' series held on Dec. 7, 2012 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in West Seattle and Dec 8, 2012 concert at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Seattle's University District ; with tracks from a recording session held at Holy Rosary on June 30, 2013.

1 In Silent Night
2 Unborn: A Processional Introit
3 O Come Emmanuel
4 Isaiah's Voice
5 Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium)
6 Ave Maria A4
7 Mary Had a Baby
8 Ave Maria
9 Gabriel's Message
10 Then Christmas Comes
11 Lux Aurumque
12 Silent Night
13 Dona Nobis Pacem

Disc: 2

1 Recorded Live
2 Digital Recording
3 Includes a 12 Page Booklet with Lyrics, Program Notes and Graphics

The program provides an equally prayerful as joyous Christmas spirit. The performance of the ensemble under Professor Wolfgang Helbich was honored with numerous awards over the years. 

Many concerts at major festivals at home and abroad, and numerous CD and radio productions have made the Alsfelder Vokalensemble's beautiful sound known across the borders of Germany.

‎ Carus-Verlag

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