A Choral Christmas is an album by German

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 cross-cultural

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 new age

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 band Cusco

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. It was released in 1995.

The album was produced in collaboration with the Munich Opera Choir. The tracks feature a fusion of slow vocal melodies with music of late Middle Ages and Renaissance

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, and instrumentally reflect on their previous Concierto de Aranjuez

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 album from 1986. Unlike any other Cusco

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 album, the choirs are predominant in most tracks, the exceptions being the instrumental "Canon" and "Swan Lake / The Nutcracker". This album was also released on the Prudence label under the title A Cusco Christmas.

Track listing

1. "There Comes A Vessel Laden / In Dulci Jubilo"
2. "Silent Night"
3. "Jesus Stays My Joy"
4. "Lo, How A Rose"
5. "Canon"
6. "From Heaven Above"
7. "Christ The Lord Is Born Today"
8. "Swan Lake / The Nutcracker"
9. "Soon It Will Be Night"
10. "Shepherd's Christmas Symphonia"

Album credits

• Matt Marshall – Executive producer
• Kristian Schultze
  Kristian Schultze
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   – Arranger, programming, choir master
• Dan Selene – Executive producer
• Joseph L. Steiner III – Digital mastering
• Murry Whiteman – Art direction, design
• Maria Ehrenreich – Project coordinator
• Koji Yamashita – Photography
• Johannes Walter – Photography
• Michael Holm
  Michael Holm
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   – Arranger, voices, producer, mixing
• William Aura – Digital mastering
• Cusco – Main performer