Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin - A Christmas Night - Classical & Traditional FavoritesWith selections ranging from Praetorius to Britten, plus all time favorites such as J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Handel's Messiah, this album brings together some of the most beautiful and justly famous musical settings of the Nativity story. Festive or intimate, exuberant or elegiac, these highlights from iconic recordings in harmonia mundi's voluminous catalogue are an ideal sampling of the Christmas magic across epochs and styles.

as demonstrated by the brilliant transcriptions on their recordings

ranging from early baroque arias to orchestral songs by Alban Berg and Mahler's 'Resurrection Symphony'

where she wrote music

thanks to the wall of sound production of the mysterious Marshall Lawless

Wilms composed several symphonies and concertos

shown by these so-called "loose" women

The ensemble's name

Two evil geniuses have created the perfect killing machine

Sent to investigate a woman's brutal murder in a remote town in Northern Norway

with a more straightforward death metal-oriented sound

VIDA Guitar Quartet - Leaves Be Green

and film critic Tadao Sato