Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band: Vaughan Williams: Carols, Songs & Hymns – review

(Park)It has become a Christmas tradition that Maddy Prior should break away from Steeleye Span to work with those exponents of carols and early English music, the Carnival Band, and they are on tour together again right now, with a (for the most part) suitably seasonal new album to promote. This is a concept set, based on the folk-influenced work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the great composer who was also a dedicated collector of traditional songs and became president of the English Folk Song...

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