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Classical CDs Weekly: Christmas CDs 2020 | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs Weekly: Christmas CDs 2020 Classical CDs Weekly: Christmas CDs 2020 Ten choice discs for the festive season by Graham RicksonSaturday, 19 December 2020     Another year, another new Bach Christmas Oratorio. Not that I’m complaining; this one is another zinger, up there with excellent contemporary versions from Stephen Layton and John Butt. Rainer Johannes Homberg’s Stuttgart Hymnus Boys’ Ch...

Equalities minister Liz Truss. (David Cliff/NurPhoto/Getty) Equalities minister Liz Truss gave a speech so “bonkers” that parts of it have been redacted from the government website amid concerns over its content. At a think tank on Thursday (17 December), Truss declared she wants to pivot away from “fashionable” issues of race, sexuality and gender as she sets out a “new approach to equality in this country”. Describing what she sees as the “failed ideas of the Left,” Truss said...

4/5 A Christmas album with a twist, this charming new CD celebrates the music of a Mexican cathedral 17 December 2020 • 6:00am Siglo de Oros new album is released by Delphian Credit: Delphian The normal flood of classical Christmas albums has been reduced to something between a stream and a trickle this year, for obvious reasons. The biggest hitter, Jonas Kaufmann’s It’s Christmas!, which has the great operatic tenor singing Mariah Carey and Bing Crosby hits as well as sweet German carols...