Malcom Archer's Gold for a manger bed, for SATB choir and organ, sets a text by hymn-writer Timothy Dudley-Smith with a really good tune, forthrightly presented in three verses, the last with descant. * Matthew Greenall, The Singer, December 2004 * Malcolm Archer has used good words by Timothy Dudley-Smith in Gold for a manger bed, a perfectly formed and fluent setting. * Peter Barley, Choir and Organ, Nov 04 *
