Choral, Christmas Carols, Hewitt Jones, Thomas (composer)
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This album stems from a lockdown project designed to lif t the spirits, and boy does it still do so. The choir is warm and, as ever, pitch perfect, but it’s Taylor Scott Davis’s sparkling ,... —
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The Spirit of Christmas
Joanna Lumley & John Julius Norwich (narrators)
RTE Concert Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland & Barry Wordsworth
Crisp, energetic performances from both the orchestras and their respective conductors. —
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Hodie! Contemporary Christmas Carols
Oliver Hancock (organ), Lucy Claire Brown (horn) & Phoebe Pexton (flute)
The Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir, Sam Gladstone
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A Magical Christmas Piano
Arthur Hanlon, Dan Needham (drums), Josh Esther (bass), Camilo Velandia (guitar), Eddie Perez (keyboards), Jason Edmunds (background vocal), Jean Rodriguez (vocal)
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O Holy Night – A Merton Christmas
Choir of Merton College, Oxford & Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Nicholas
There are many vibrantly, energetic moment here…In many ways, though, the best singing comes in quieter moment: Elizabeth Poston’s Jesus Christ the apple tree, with the top line sweetly profiled... —
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The disc is full of sensitively balanced, expressive performance, most of them sung unaccompanied…A jazzed-up God rest you merry, gentlemen and a chittering Jingle Bells bring fun into the equation,... —
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Geoffrey Webber's 'dream Christmas programme' enjoys superb sound, and singing burgeoning with colour and confidence. —
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Advent Calendar
Emma Walshe (soloist), Joby Burgess (soloist), Katy Hill (soloist), Joshua Cooter (soloist), ORA, Richard Bannan (soloist), Suzi Digby, Lucy Cox (soloist), Emma Morton, Emilia Morton (soloist), Orazio Vecchi
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Seamlessly blended by choirmaster Matthew Owens, who has cultivated a bright, gleaming sonority, and the type of crisp attack heard to good effect in the Zither Carol…this is a desirable collection —
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An English Christmas
Christopher Watson (tenor), Eleanor Hicks (soprano), Oliver Kelham (tenor), Áine Smith (soprano), Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Nicholas
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