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Our Choices The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Charlotte Smith Editor

s head of music at a school in Somerset, my sister generally prepares the music for the students’ Wells Cathedral carol service during the summer holiday. This year she sought my opinion, and on the agenda and Rutter’s But new to me was , ’s 2008 setting of the Coventry Carol. This beautiful lament for a child is definitely one to add to my Christmas list.

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