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Worthy to sit beside Bach? Elder and the LPO play Sir James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio

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“the Christmas story is told with all the drive, energy and urgency that it deserves”
Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 4 December 2021
MacMillan, Christmas Oratorio (UK premiere)
Sir Mark Elder, Conductor
Lucy Crowe, Soprano
Roderick Williams, Baritone
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