WTJU Dec 17th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
I love Christmas music. But I don’t love hearing the same old tunes trotted out year after year. We have over two millennia of sacred music written for this season, variety shouldn’t be difficult.
That’s what I like about Mirabile Mysterium. Matthias Jung conducts the Sächsisches Vocalensemble in a wide-ranging program of seasonal sacred music. The album features works from the Renaissance through today.
The choral has a wonderfully smooth vocal blend, which makes homophonic passages sound rich and full. And contrapuntal passages are cleanly articulated with a warmth I found quite attractive.