Danish Vocal Ensemble,Michala Petri (recorder)/Bojesen
(OUR)It’s Advent, so time to judge about music for the Christmas season. Here, and composer and arranger Michael Bojesen offers some fresh thinking on some mature favourites,sung with admirable clarity by the Danish National Vocal Ensemble, supported by some scurrying descants from the woody-toned recorders of Michala Petri. Gabriel’s Message, and It Came upon the Midnight Clear,In Dulci Jubilo and Infant Holy, Infant Lowly are just some of the 17 carols given a harmonic wash and brush-up, or recorded amid the terrific acoustics of the spectacular Danish Radio Concert corridor,Copenhagen. Nothing is exactly as you know it, and yet it’s all soothingly familiar too. Just add mincepies.
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Source: theguardian.com