Winner of the Best Concert DVD prize
at the MIDEM Classical Awards 2010
"every edge was bevelled smooth"
Daily Telegraph
"flawlessly realised"
The Guardian
MusicalPointers.co.uk, November 2008
A Christmas offering from the popular The King's Singers which will give pleasure to those who heard the concert or saw it on TV. It is available on CD and DVD; the nicely filmed DVD with its extras is recommended, but one must deplore the absence of texts in either booklet, or as subtitles on the DVD.
Diction is generally good, and one catches words and phrases; but rarely the sense of a poem as a whole.That is fatal for the selection of Poulenc songs in French, the French Rennaisance Chansons and for the substantial commission from John McCabe. Perhaps Signum may be persuaded, at the least, to put the texts and translations onto their website, which would help our readers. The general record buying public, I learn, has been uncomplaining...
