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There's an infectious spiritual feel to "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow", while the innovative arrangement of "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" borrows the tempo of Brubeck's "Take Five". Best of all is an amusing "Twelve Days of Christmas" incorporating John Julius Norwich's epistolary responses to the gifts, climaxing in an injunction against the increasingly perverse presents.
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