The Gloucester Cathedral Choir sings In the Bleak Midwinter

Posted by Kendall Harmon



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Posted December 26, 2010 at 3:07 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Larry Morse wrote:

Of all the carols, my favorite. It is hard to believe that this is Holst at work; how unlike his customary musical idiom. I cannot hear this without tears coming unbidden, and I always think that I too would wish to make this gift.  Larry

December 26, 6:23 pm | [comment link]
2. Lapinbizarre wrote:

Nice to hear the lovely Holst setting, rather than the dull and droning, but chorally-showy Harold Darke setting, kept on life support by its annual trotting-out at the King’s Nine Lessons service (a partisan thing - Darke was King’s acting music director during WWII).

December 27, 7:30 pm | [comment link]
3. Pageantmaster [KJS to Coventry] wrote:

Holst has some amazing choral work like his rendering of the Nunc Dimittis.  There is a version by the Choir of Exeter Cathedral here

December 27, 9:03 pm | [comment link]
4. Lapinbizarre wrote:

Was not familiar with this setting.  Thanks PM.

December 29, 12:15 pm | [comment link]
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