Prepare the Way, O Zion, Your Christ Is Drawing Near!

This lilting setting of the familiar Advent chorale, BEREDEN VAG FOR HERRAN from Then Swenska Psalmboken (1697), begins with a joyous scherzo-like organ introduction. Nickels (Church of the Holy Comforter, Kenilworth, Illinois) is a fine organist, so he naturally provides a sparkling accompaniment that continues throughout in repeated dance-like figures. The organist’s left hand plays brilliant coloratura under the third verse. The bright vocal line can be sung by choristers of any age.
— Richard Hoskins, The Diapason, November 2017