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A rather different tradition of Christmas is represented by The Mystery of Christmas on Divine Art, here we have Greek Kalanda (carols) composed by Cilia Petridou. Setting traditional texts of Petridou’s own, we have a series of songs sung by Jenni Harper, Lesley-Jane Rogers and Alison Smart with piano accompaniment from Sarah Down. The Greek texts represent a slightly different view of the traditional Christmas, echoing the Greek Orthodox celebrations. Of Greek-Cypriot origin, Petridou studied at the Vienna Academy and the Royal Academy of Music, and her attractively melodic music has its own distinctive traditional elements to it too. The CD booklet, though, gives you little background to the music and concentrates instead on the art of Petridou’s father, whose drawing graces the CD cover.