Annie Lennox: A Christmas Cornucopia | CD review

(Island)Lennox can't help make everything she sings sound effortful and ablaze with righteousness, but her first festive album makes a virtue of it by pairing that commanding voice with carols that have stood the test of centuries. The result is a collection you might actually play at other times of the year, too. Despite the contributions of a 30-piece orchestra and the African Children's Choir, much of the album has an appealingly spare, folk-songy quality – the couple of instances in which...

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