Album: Theatre of Voices / Ars Nova Copenhagen / Hillier, The Christmas Story (Harmonia Mundi)

Sunday 11 December 2011 01:00 GMT

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Only one work from Carols for Choirs has made it into Paul Hillier's strikingly original Christmas sequence.

Pungent arrangements of "Personent Hodie" and "Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen" jostle for space with ancient plainchant, Byrd's impeccable "O Magnum Mysterium", a charming "We Three Kings", and the rhetorical Roman Baroque dialogue motets of Alessandro Grandi and Giovanni Anerio. Ars Nova's ripe choral sound outclasses the thready blend of Theatre of Voices.

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