Season's Greetings

Time to dig out The Essential Carols Collection I guess. A disk of 25 tracks from DG featuring most of the familiar carols that you would want to hear ( Once In Royal David's City, O Come All Ye Faithful, The First Nowell, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Hark The Herald etc, won't list them all ) Some given fairly po faced and slow paced renditions with lots of descants. Britten and Tavener also feature together with Bryn Terfel singing Mary's Boy Child and the Boston Pops playing Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer to finish off. Fairly starry choirs featured, mainly the Choir of King's College Cambridge but also the Choir of Westminster Abbey ( the one mainly responsible for the po faced contributions ), the Monteverdi Choir and the Vienna Boys Choir, who provide a very oddly phrased Twelve Days of Christmas. Despite reservations, it gets you in the mood for the festivities. On the off chance that anybody reads this post, season's greetings and very best wishes.