Following the success of 100 Christmas Classics (Capriccio C7331) comes Christmas Meditation, featuring 100 choral and instrumental works from across the centuries. The set encompasses sacred Renaissance treasures including Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria, Handel’s Baroque masterpiece Messiah (‘He shall feed his flock’) and classic Christmas carols such as It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Richard Storrs Willis and Franz Xaver Gruber’s Stille Nacht (‘Silent Night’). Featuring some of the most renowned choral institutions, Christmas Meditation offers listeners a classical Christmas to remember.

Contents:

CD 1
- Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Pastoral Symphony)
- Praetorius: Kindelein zart
- Manfredini: Christmas Concerto
- Herbeck: Pueri concinite
- Handel: Messiah (He shall feed his flock)
- Gabrieli: Symphoniae sacrae

CD 2
- Handel: Messiah (Pastoral Symphony)
- Bach: Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
- Corelli: Christmas Concerto, op.6 no.8
- Traditional: Es ist ein Reis entsprungen
- Grieg: Ave Maris stella
- Bruch: Song of the Holy Kings, op.21

CD 3
- Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
- Praetorius: Den die Hirten lobten sehre
- Bach: O Jesulein süß
- Vivaldi: Concerto grosso, op.3 no.11 (Siciliano)
- Willis: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Bach: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

CD 4
- Adam: Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
- Locatelli: Concerto grosso “Christmas Concerto”
- Reger: Und unser lieben Frauen
- Rheinberger: Evening Song
- Mendelssohn: Psalm 91 (Denn er hat seinen Engeln)

CD 5
- Saint-Saëns: Oratorio de Noël
- Bruch: Songs of the Christ Child
- Telemann: Overture in F major “A la pastorelle”
- Palestrina: Et incarnatus est
- Reichert: Heilige Nacht
- Albinoni: Concerto in D minor (Largo)
- Gruber: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht