Each year,as the days grow shorter and temperatures a little colder, we begin to experience a sense of anticipation and excitement, as the holidays draw near.'Tis the season for delicious smells ,heart-warming sights, and joyful sounds; no other time of year is as filled with musical celebrations and good will, when even strangers come together and raise their voices in song! New for this year, composer and arranger Michael Bojesen has selected hymns and carols from across the centuries and around the world, adding a touch of extra holiday joy with the soaring descants of Michala Petri's recorder, shining brightly like the star atop a Christmas tree. "Nothing is exactly as you know it, and yet it’s all soothingly familiar too. Just add mince pies." The Guardian UK (Dec. 2015) Stephen Pritchard "... a delightful recording of traditional Christmas carols and songs. (...)There are many popular carols here, quite beautifully and rather intimately realised by Michala Petri and the Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Fine musicianship brought to bear on these timeless carols from around Europe make this a disc to return to all through the season." The Classical reviewer (UK) 1 Gabriel's Message 2 Angelus ad Virginem 3 Up! Good Christen Folk, and Listen 4 Rocking 5 A Virgin Most Pure 6 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear 7 King Jesus Hath a Garden 8 In Dulci Jubilo 9 Coventry Carol 10 God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen 11 Zither Carol 12 Unto Us is Born a Son 13 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly 14 The Linden Tree Carol 15 Good King Wenceslas 16 Blessed Be That Maid Mary 17 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel "The Christmas round-up: No, for a real Christmas treat, turn to Let The Angels Sing, a collection of mainly well-known European carols in arrangements by conductor Michael Bojesen for the Danish National Vocal Ensemble (with near-faultless English) with recorder arabesques of Michala Petri. Another surprise, and another satisfying discs." Gramophone