AMERICAN COLONIAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC - Berkeley Chamber Singers, Alden Gilchrist

"With characteristic clarity, impeccable taste, Alden Gilchrist's Berkeley Chamber Singers have produced a valuable portrait of America's early Christmas music. The Colonial's music was on a par with their other arts, comparably clean and direct in design, with idiom and form often strikingly independent. This disc gives us a delightful cross-section of a musical past too long neglected and a fine spun addition to our living Christmas tradition.''