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My favorite carol collection of all time is We Three Kings by the Roches - no longer all that recent, but it did come out within the CD era. Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band have done several good carols albums, and more recently Prior also did a peculiar but interesting one with her band Steeleye Span titled Winter.

For other Christmas music, there's always Part I of Handel's Messiah, and Arcangelo Corelli's Christmas Concerto.