Some might prefer Britten’s Ceremony of Carols to be a little rowdier, but this is otherwise a technically superb display of largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One to warm the chilliest evenings.

nothing eats into the delights on offer from the superb voices of Nigel Short’s Tenebrae...Their passion and precision — the group’s watchwords — equally warm the air in Edward Naylor’s tumultuous Advent anthem Vox dicentis, another highlight of a rewarding programme neatly mixing new friends and old.

Tenebrae’s fourth Christmas album is up to the standards of previous instalments, the choral singing incredibly refined and captured in a glowing church acoustic...There’s a pleasing selection of old and new here, numbers by Howells and Vaughan Williams sharing space with the likes of Sally Beamish, Bob Chilcott and Joseph Phibbs, whose “Sleep My Pretty One, Sleep” provides a sublime close.