The cover of this disc, evocative of a shopping-mall display, fails to so much as hint at the riches within: a collection of contemporary Christmas pieces that, in its range, will be of interest even to those of other faiths or none at all. As ever, it is the eclectic spirit that forms the great British strength. On this disc, populists and pop-influenced composers (Howard Goodall's Romance of the Angels is a big ska/rumba extravaganza that sets a medieval Spanish text and works strangely well) bump up against minimalists ...
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The cover of this disc, evocative of a shopping-mall display, fails to so much as hint at the riches within: a collection of contemporary Christmas pieces that, in its range, will be of interest even to those of other faiths or none at all. As ever, it is the eclectic spirit that forms the great British strength. On this disc, populists and pop-influenced composers (Howard Goodall's Romance of the Angels is a big ska/rumba extravaganza that sets a medieval Spanish text and works strangely well) bump up against minimalists (John Tavener), who bump up against modernists (Peter Maxwell Davies), and a few genuine freethinkers (Jerzy Kornowicz, whose Oczekiwanie [Waiting] is one of the highlights of the whole set with its extraordinary manipulation of abstract but instantly comprehensible structural elements: spoken word, wordless choral singing, and combination of a short Polish text and its own translation into English). Continental European and American composers are represented as well as Britons....
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