An abundantly versatile composer, Peter Foggitt in A Christmas Lullaby tunes in to the spirit of minimalism that has inspired so much remarkable music since Tavener, Górecki and Pärt discovered a new gift to be simple in their ground-breaking works of the 1970s and 1980s.

To the nativity scene painted in words by John Addington Symonds the unchanging-changing chords of the limpid accompaniment for organ or piano bring an aura of rapt intensity and communion.

With the clarity of an icon, ...