The Motor City Brass Quintet (Brass Jar) has released an outstanding album, Christmas Vespers,  which features both sacred and secular Christmas music. The centerpiece of the album  is John Harbison’s Christmas Vespers, which the MCBQ premiers here. Other songs include: Angels We Have Heard On High, Once in David’s Royal City, Sleigh Ride, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The Motor City Brass Quintet is John Rutherford (Trombone), David Ammer (Trumpet), Derek Lockhart (Trumpet), David Everson (Horn), and Jacob Cameron (Tuba).

Christmas Vespers is available from iTunes, and CD Baby.