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Album Title:A Southwest Christmas
Artist:Phoenix Bach Choir
Performers:Robert-Tree Cody, Frank Koonce
Label:Soundset Recordings
Performance Type:   Studio Recording
Genre:Classical, Holiday, Choral
Sub-Genre:Choral Music

 

"The Phoenix Bach Choir four years ago premiered Milagros de Navidad, a Christmas cycle for choir, guitar and percussion by Ed Henderson, as a way of marking the holiday season in a Southwestern accent. This year, the choir has made Milagros the lead item in a superbly produced and packaged yuletide CD from an emerging Arizona label, Soundset. Jon Washburn conducts the ensemble of Frank Koonce, guitar; Mark Sunkett, percussion; and the choir with select soloists."

"In this sonically clean and vibrant recording, Milagros is a compendium of yuletide songs lovingly sung in Spanish and English, with running commentary from guitarist Koonce. Robert Tree Cody, on Native American Flute (the instrument of choice this season, it seems), is also heard here, in Washburn's own Noel Sing We, a kind of American Indian-haunted holiday landscape."

-Kenneth LaFave Music and Dance Critic The Arizona Republic