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

was a classical violinist who moved to the Americas to become lead violinist in the Boston Symphony and Cuban Philharmonic before joining the studio band at Columbia Records

featuring his own songs

1s with "Three Little Words"

The CD also contains tracks cut subsequently as the Fashions

Anton Bruckner described his Fourth Symphony as "Romantic

character sketches of southerners became a lot more rounded - women didn't have to stay home

Whether you are wrapping presents

together with the choir "Sequenza 9

tenor sax and Dannie Richmond

This debut recording with piano works by Prokofiev

This great-value 56-track 2-CD collection features most of the A and B sides of their releases on the States and Gospel labels during this era

It's present lineup is Marek Veleminsky