Pink Martini: Joy to the World – review

(Heinz/Wrasse)With their global outlook, Pink Martini have a piquant appreciation for the fact that the composer of one of America's best-known Christmas songs was born a Russian Jew. They might open Joy to the World with a softly conventional reading of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, but that dissolves into a swooning version of the song in Japanese, which is followed by carols in Russian and Hebrew, Arabic interventions into Silent Night and Auld Lang Syne, and a take on We Three Kings dense...

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