It’s always so difficult to come up with the perfect carol for Christmas Day, because there are so many gorgeous ones. So today, in the spirit of giving (or perhaps of over-indulgence), I present three. In the Bleak Midwinter is…
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Monday Music: Mars, The Bringer of War (Gustav Holst)
For New Year’s Eve, I wanted to choose something which reflected some special part of 2012. I also liked the idea of something astronomy-oriented, since we are, after all, celebrating another orbit of the Earth around the Sun. The landing…
Advent Calendar Day 16 – In the Bleak Midwinter (Darke *and* Holst)
Another slightly better-known carol, this one with lyrics by Christina Rosetti, who certainly never intended for it to be sung, since it scans differently in every verse. I love this carol for the words, which I find very evocative –…
Advent Calendar Day 6 – Lullay My Liking (Trad.)
Today’s piece is what happens when I go looking for the version of ‘I saw a maiden’ that we sing in my work Christmas choir and find every other setting of that carol, ever, but not the one I’m looking…