A musical countdown to Christmas with 25 wonderful carols

Related Artists: Mary-Louise Aitken, Jeremy Carpenter, The Choir of Somerville College, Douglas Knight, Robert Smith, David Crown, John Rutter, Johann Sebastian Bach, Stephen Darlington, Peter Warlock, Glenn L Rudolph, Richard Rodney Bennett, Raymond Head, Malcolm Archer, Elizabeth Poston, Peter Cornelius, Paul Sartin, David Willcocks, Toby Young, Bob Chilcott, Charles Wood, Otto Goldschmidt, Harold Darke, John Gardner

Purchase item

1. Advent calendar (CD) Add to cart £13.00
2. Advent calendar (Download) Add to cart £7.50

Catalogue No: 5060192780338

Reviews

Lusty performances, and a nice mix of familiar and less familiar selections. (BBC Music)

One of the most interesting programmes of carols this year (Gramophone)

At last, a Christmas disc you can enjoy for the quality of the performances! It would make a great gift, but you might want to keep it for yourself. This is a disc you can enjoy in private, and in the company of friends and family with above average taste in music. It’s that good. No Xmassy ersatz here. This is the real thing! The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, conducted by David Crown make this a disc to cherish. Their enthusiasm is genuinely infectious. You get caught up in the sheer joy of the singing, excitement, whether you celebrate Christmas or not.  That’s high praise, especially in a market saturated with the blasé and conventional. The Somerville Choir are young, but older than many church choristers.  Thus they sing with freshness and energy, yet are mature enough to sound as if they’re singing because they have chosen, spontaneously, to get together and enjoy themselves. (Classical Iconoclast)