“AND THE ANGELS SING.” North Star Records...

“AND THE ANGELS SING.” North Star Records NS0035. The problem with “And the Angels Sing” is that they don’t, nor does anybody else. Though solidly--even imaginatively, in the numbers featuring oboe--arranged, these varied instrumental settings of standard Christmas fare seldom rise above a pleasant party background. The recorded sound on this disc, created as a companion to a songbook of the same title produced by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, favors strings and woodwinds over the bright and brittle brass.