"No extraneous emotive buttons are pushed on 'A Vaughan Williams Christmas' ... All in all, it's very sober fare for Christmas - dry even - but it is impossible to dismiss given its content, its neat performances from the Royal Hospital Chapel Choir and its thorough academic contextualisation ... It's difficult to hear the 'Mummer's Carol' without considering the British troops for whom it was written, stationed in a windswept Iceland during the Second World War. 'A Vaughan Williams Christmas' is a disc about Christmas, not for Christmas".