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The choir of King's College Cambridge performs the traditional Christmas concert Credit: Benjamin Sheen The nation has spoken, the list is in, and Songs of Praise yesterday revealed the UK’s Top 10 Favourite Christmas Carols. We sing them in churches, chapels, streets and schools every year, wrap presents and decorate our Christmas trees to their accompaniment, know all the words by heart – but how much do we know about the stories behind them?  Here are just some of the histories and controversies, the secret political messages and famous names attached to your favourite carols.  10. O...

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’ Choir sing with incisive clarity, high-class support coming from Handel’s Company and a starry trio ...

December 14, 2020 It’s time for Christmas music! Technically, of course, if you’re traditional about these things, it’s time for Advent music. Advent is the beautiful four-week season that precedes Christmas, a time of waiting in darkness for the light of Christ to dawn. During this tumultuous year of 2020, the season of Advent, and all that comes with it, has much to say to worshippers (read an essay I wrote on Advent and the hymns and carols particular to that season here). Today we must admit that Advent and Christmas are often somewhat jumbled in our minds. In this year of unique t...