Thanks, Kendall+,  I love this piece- a favorite of mine, too. I never tire of it even though I have sung it (as part of a choir) several times for Lessons and Carols Services. Just beautiful!

If you are interested in the composer of this carol, there is an interesting discussion about this interesting lady, and her remarkable activities during WWII featured on ‘The Choir’ here [scroll forward to 1hr 5mins 40secs in]

I have to say, I did not warm to E.P.‘s wartime compositions featured in #2; not at all in the same league as the Apple Tree, but then, perhaps that was not the reason they were composed as they were, as the program speculates - although the Scottish choral group may have had some part in murdering them.

Mind you, even the use of the term ‘Daybook’ may be odd.  You would expect a composer to use a term like diary, notebook, jottings, or journal; but ‘daybook’ is a term more usually [perhaps exclusively] found in that period in business - a record of the day’s transactions - perhaps there is something else recorded in these compositions.