Looking for that special sound that will make your holiday activities complete? Or are you one of those who has vowed not to get any more holiday music because you already have more than you need, but can't resist new temptations? Here's a roundup of some of the best holiday recordings AMG Classical has encountered this year.

This box set includes all four discs originally released between 1987 and 1995 by Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort: Festive Music from Europe and America, Nine Centuries of Seasonal Music, and The Carol Album I: Seven Centuries of Christmas Music, plus its sequel, The Carol Album II: Seven Centuries of Christmas Music. The 66 pieces here mostly come from The New Oxford Book of Carols edited by Parrott and Hugh Keyte, and, as can be seen from the disc titles, they cover all of shape and manner of what might very loosely be termed Christmas carols. There are carols for choir, for soprano, for guitar, for organ, for brass, and for what sounds like a consort of sackbutts; carols from early America by William Billings, from 16th century Venice by Giovanni Gabrieli, from 13th century France, and from a 10th century nunnery by Hildegard von Bingen; carols you've heard all your life, like the traditional God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, and carols you've never heard before in your life, like Anton Webern's Dormi Jesu.

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