In the Bleak Midwinter
Choir of King’s College Cambridge Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'In the Bleak Midwinter' by these artists:

Aled Jones In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Aled Jones English Session Orchestra & Libera In the bleak mid-winter In the bleak mid-winter Frosty win…
Allison Crowe In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan Earth stood har…
Andrew Carwood & St. Paul's Cathedral Choir In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Angelo Kelly & Family In the bleak midwinter, icy wind made moan Earth stood hard…
Annie Lennox In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Anthony Way (treble)/ The Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral /John Scott In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Armonico Consort & Christopher Monks "In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood h…
Ashley Serena In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…

Benjamin Luxon & Westminster Cathedral Choir In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
Blake In the bleak midwinter frost wind made moan Earth stood hard…
Bryn Terfel In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
Camilla Kerslake In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, earth stood h…
Charlie Landsborough In the bleak mid winter Frosty winds made moan Earth as…
Choir of King's College Cambridge Stephen Cleobury Hugo Herman-Wilson & Douglas Tang In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
Choir of Westminster Cathedral In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
Christina Rossetti In the bleak midwinter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood…
Crash Test Dummies In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Crowe Allison In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan Earth stood har…
Cyndi Lauper In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Dan Fogelberg In the bleak mid-winter, the frosty wind did moan The earth…
Daughters of St. Paul In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
David Archuleta In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind may moan Earth stood har…
Divers / Loreena McKennitt In the bleak mid-winter frosty winds made moan Earth stood h…
Ellen Ives On Harp W/ Ensemble In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Franz Liszt Gustav Holst Carolyne M. Taylor In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood …
Freya Ward In the Bleak Midwinter Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood ha…
Gabrielle Aplin In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Gregorian In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood…
Gregorian - Christmas Chants In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Gretchen Peters In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood h…
High Street Hymns In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan Earth stood har…
Ida Mae In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Indigo Girls In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
Indigo Girls (Holiday) In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood …
Jacob Collier Ooh (Ah) In the bleak midwinter frosty wind may blow. Earth…
James Taylor In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
Jamie Cullum In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Jane Siberry In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood …
Jars of Clay In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Jazz Morley In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood h…
Jerry Douglas In the bleak mid-winter frosty winds made moan Earth stood h…
Jones Aled In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Josh Moir In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Julie Andrews In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood…
Julie Cameron-Hall In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Keith & Kristyn Getty And there were shepherds Living out in the fields nearby Kee…
Kinfolk 9 In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
Loreena McKennitt In the bleak mid-winter frosty winds made moan Earth stood h…
Marika Hackman In the bleak midwinter, frosty winds made moan Earth stood h…
Military Wives In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
Mindy Gledhill In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Mormon Tabernacle Choir In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood…
Moya Brennan In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made morn Earth stood ha…
Natalie Cole & Mormon Tabernacle Choir In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood…
Paul Colman Trio In the bleak midwinter, frosty winds made moan Earth stood …
Ray Conniff & The Singers In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
Ray Hamilton Orchestra and Choir In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
Reed & Christie In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Royal College of Music Chamber Choir and Brass Ensemble In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Sam And Josh In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Sarah Brightman In the bleak midwinter Frost wind made moan Earth stood hard…
Sarah Brightman (Holiday) In the bleak midwinter Frost wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Sissel In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood…
Smith & Burrows In the bleak midwinter Stormy winds may blow Earth stood har…
St Paul's Cathedral Choir In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Steeleye Span In the bleak midwinter, frosty winds made moan Earth stood …
Steven Curtis Chapman In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Susan Boyle In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
The Albion Band In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…
The Cantorum Choir In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
The Choir Of St. Paul's Cathedral - Dr. J. Dykes Bower Organ: Harry Gabb In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
The Choir Of Westminster Abbey In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood h…
The Choir Of Westminster Cathedral In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
The Jacks In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
The London Chamber Orchestra In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood h…
The Lower Lights In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hig…
The Moody Blues In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind may blow Earth stood har…
The Moody Blues (Holiday) In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind may blow Earth stood h…
The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists Abbie Betinis & Matthew Culloton In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
The St. Olaf Choir Anton Armstrong In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood ha…
Traditional In the bleak midwinter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood…
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood har…
Westminster Cathedral Choir In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, Earth stood ha…
Worcester Cathedral Choir In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood h…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Choir of King’s College Cambridge:

It Came Upon The Midnight Clear It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old Fr…
Lute-book lullaby Sweet was the song the Virgin sang, When she to Bethlem…
O Come All Ye Faithful O come, all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant O come ye, O…
O Come O Come Emmanuel O come, all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant O come ye, O…
O come O come Emmanuel! O come, all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant O come ye, O…
O Little Town Of Bethlehem O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee…

The Three Kings Three Kings from Persian lands afar To Jordan follow the poi…

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Hari V

3y↑88

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty —
Jesus Christ.

Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom Angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.

Angels and Archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.

Christina Rossetti

Bebberly Cumble

2y↑1

n the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone
Snow had fallen
Snow on snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long, long ago
Angels and Arc Angels
May have traveled there
Cherubim and Seraphim
Thronged the air
But only his Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshiped the beloved
With a kiss
What can I give him?
Poor as I am
If I were a shepherd
I would give a lamb
If I were a wise man
I would do my part
But what I can I give him
Give him my heart
Give him my heart

All comments from YouTube:

tim heywood

1y↑186

Forty years ago I sang the last verse of this as a solo in the Primary school choir. We were very poor, often hungry, dirty and wearing Charity shop clothes. I can still remember being surprised by how many of the audience were crying. Now, as an adult I can understand the emotional responses to such powerful words and music and how my situation back then fitted the sentiments so genuinely. After four decades of trying to be good and generous, I am still poor and the one crying because of my understanding and empathy

karen kennedy

1y↑5

Keep up the good work

Avera Yugen

1y↑6

OMG I thought I was the only one! THANK YOU!!🌲

Louise Macardle

1y↑12

You have lived well for 40 years, despite your poverty. I share the same experience.
But this poem brings me great joy, as does the Christmas story, because the greatest treasure we can have is a relationship with Jesus. And our gift of our heart is worth so much more than great riches, and we receive so much in return from our heavenly father.
I pray that you will listen to the Carol again, and open your heart to His love and peace and joy.

tim heywood

1y↑15

@Louise Macardle Thank you for your thoughtful words. I actually made a mistake.....it was fifty years ago! That Christmas we were living in a squalid flat above a shop. The only food in the kitchen was a tub of margarine, tea leaves and a jar of pickled red cabbage. In the way only the innocence and nativity of six year old children can do, me and my sister wrote a letter to God asking him for help. We sellotaped a two and one pence piece to the letter, threw it out of the window and prayed.

Maybe this year God will get chance to reply

The Gay Rascal

1y↑3

@tim heywood I hope He does! 🙏🏼

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Telephassa Rose

3y↑372

A lot of people are achingly sad this Christmas...this poignant & beautifully sung carol is very apt...thank you.

Sally Sailor

3y↑16

Me too . . But pray for the world’s children, please. These Dark endtimes are especially hard on children, I Think. In peaceful Bergen in Norway, I just read, there were children that had to Call the police on Christmas Eve, due to drunk and violent parents. 😔

Telephassa Rose

3y↑16

@Sally Sailor people cannot cope.
I pray for all the peoples in the world; I hope & pray for spiritual renewal and for all the evil in the ascendancy to be overcome.

ThomasHenry DOAK

3y↑10

"There is a God in Heaven!"

Jane Innes

2y↑4

@ThomasHenry DOAK yes amen! And Jesus with us, and in us. Our comfort, company, best friend. We can take our ache to Him, and He fills us. Bless you ☝✝️💜

Esprit De Corps

2y↑2

Perfect comment...thank you

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paul alexander

1y↑36

This carol reminds me of my daughter who past from this earthly vale at 30 years old in 2019 . I listen with tears rolling down my cheeks and thinking of what could have been had she married in March as was planned. My dear fragile flower your father misses you God bless you and keep you.

videosbylaurel

1y↑2

I'm so sorry for your loss

gdust

1y↑1

That is so sad. How did she die? Im 33/f. A man who played the organ at a church who wanted to marry me had taken his own life and i wonder what could have been. I cry bitter tears thinking of him in this song as I listened to a video at church where he played this song on Christmas in 2020 before he took his life. Its a very sad song this version of it.

Seema Kansabanik

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Esprit De Corps

2y↑104

I soooo miss my parents this time of year, yet somehow in the midst of the tears I find some solace in knowing that they raised a pretty decent kid who will always love them and what this time of year brings or should bring to us all. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. May your season be bright! To my fellow servicemen and women...thinking of you and you are not alone. HOOAH!!

C.L Piano

2y↑5

Wishing you the same, Merry Christmas! 🙏❤

Alfred Royal

1y↑4

We all think like you do. My two sisters and I grew up loving Christmas, all in a loving family, which didn’t have much. Our Maw and Da are dead now, we remember and love them for what they did and installed in us.

pat8212

3y↑38

We were privileged to watch this performance, just last week, on television. Beautifully sung and the fact that no one but those present in the choir, did not detract from the magic of the event...many thanks to everyone taking part.

gwho

ah, nice to see the word privileged used in the correct and non-cringe way - a thankful blessing, not an accusation of zero-sum guilt-inducing passive aggressive inheritance.

Rosemary Searle

3y↑112

This beautiful arrangement by Mack Wilberg, the measured tempo of Daniel Hyde and wonderful singing brought me paradise on earth for a short time in a difficult Christmas alone. The whole service was a joy - thank you.

Paul Moss

2y↑6

Sorry to hear you were alone at Christmas rosemary, wishing you a happier Christmas and love to you.... Paul

Xavier García

2y↑2

Merry Christmas

Michael Galib

3y↑125

That shot at 3:31, just insanely perfect camera work. If you ever read this, thank you invisible cameraperson!!

Finzi 4ever

3y↑10

well spotted - well done Rubens!

Major Laff

2y↑6

It's okay to say cameraman. 'Manu' is Latin for 'hand' so a cameraman or chairman is simply saying 'camera hand' or 'chair hand' not a 'camera male', etc.

Jules Desmond

2y↑1

@Major Laff only problem being that no one knows this..

Major Laff

2y↑2

@Jules Desmond So why not stick with the original 'chairman' or 'cameraman'? Why fix something that was never broken?

Kate PS

2y↑3

It is indeed a superb shot/transition. And Camera'person' shows respect and consideration, thank you for your comment, I might not have noticed it.

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HeyYouGuys!

3y↑72

I’ve never heard this beautiful, minor version before. As one person said, it’s perfect for such a sad year.

bornforbanning

3y↑5

I don’t know if the choir has sung this version before, at least not for a long time. Stephen Cleobury preferred the arrangement of Harold Darke (who was director of the choir at Kings during WW2). However, I much prefer this version and it is better suited for the times. I am glad Daniel Hyde is taking the choir back in the direction of Boris Ord/Wilcocks/Ledger in terms of tempo and pace.

Stu

3y↑18

Just to be pedantic - this is not in the minor. It’s using suspensions and new harmonies to Holst’s original.

R Jackson

3y↑145

It's wonderful that The King's Singers performed at such short notice, but my heart goes out to the choral scholars. Thank you for meeting all the challenges of these times to be able to go ahead with the service of Lessons, and Carols from King's - broadcasts which always, as so many have said, signal that Christmas has begun. Here's to a happier, safer year for music-making in 2021.

ds1868

3y↑9

@R Jackson Although it is a shame, I think we can agree the result here is superb. The cohesion with a smaller ensemble of singers is stunning. The balance is perfect. This is helped no doubt by the lack of a congregation, which helps clarity.

Nathan Graf

2y↑12

I rarely become emotional. But this one put a knot in my heart and made the corner of my eye tear up.

Mark L Owen

2y↑7

Reorganising this carol service last year, after some choral scholars contracted coronavirus, was a splendid effort. Many thanks to all for a much appreciated and moving service. God bless you all.

Adrian Neil

2y↑11

Can never get enough of listening to this wonderful Carol

dm g

3y↑40

Beautiful music to calm the troubled soul in sad times. My favourite carol.

Debbie Brett

3y↑14

I was utterly mesmerized when I heard King's College performing this hauntingly beautiful arrangement .

Hari V

3y↑88

Barbara

1y↑2

Thank you for providing the lyrics. Much appreciated.

Wendy

Words gentle and true

Anjela Kewell

1y↑2

Not just my favourite poem but my most poignant carol.

Susan Adams

1y↑1

Thank you for taking the time to share the words 🙏🏻

gwho

1y↑1

ty, i can't make out any of the words by listening.

professormuro

1y↑1

Best version ever! This was originally called "A Christmas Carol" (sound familiar) by its author, Christina Rosetti, in 1872. While the melody may seem melancholic, this Carol is about hope. The lyrics are loaded with some great theological truths that require additional contemplation. It is not sad, but rather it is solemn. The world was bleak before Christmas . . . not anymore.

alex tilson

3y↑15

Totally faultless and sung perfectly. It totally represented this awful year as Christmas was a very solitary occasion for many. Kings did a superb job of putting this together showing a selfless act at a time when everyone should have been celebrating. Seeing and listening just the quire singing in a empty church just magnified the music to a beautiful experiance.

rheailiaRome

2y↑9

This is one of my favorite Carols and it is beautifully sang here 🙏

lustful2

2y↑12

If this carol arrangement does not move u to tears u have not got a soul ! Simply sublimed.

ZL54JK8

Well, looks like I don't have a soul. I prefer the original version by Holst. I like the simplicity that allows the words to receive the full amount of attention.

Ruth Liberty

2y↑19

Another one of my Christmas favourites .Aah... It just takes me to the smallest ,most beautiful country church deep in an English village.... Christmas week, hurrying and scurrying to buy, prepare and get ready for the big day.... And the village church decorated with the holly and the ivy ...... Beautiful.

Michael Green

3y↑37

I sang this at Mass earlier this evening. Listening now to this lovely rendition has certainly helped with the Christmas spirit this beautiful
Christmas Eve.

Isitover55

@williamssusan1579 Fine, thanks! I hope and your family have a blessed Christmas!

Graf von Sylt

3y↑74

Happy Christmas for all people of the World! I am from Hamburg Germany and Chorister on a German Choir, and the Choir of King’s College Cambridge is a Idol for my! Happy Christmas

Alan von Au*****

3y↑5

Fröhliche Weihnachten aus den Vereinigten Staaten!

Graf von Sylt

3y↑4

Fröhliche Weihnachten!

czesław wojtyński

3y↑4

i join you from Poland

Diluk T T Tilakumara

3y↑2

Merry xmas 💙

Anka Voskuilen

3y↑2

Happy Christmas to you too! Great you are a chorister!

Bobble Bec

2y↑16

End of 2021….this song gives me hope for new beginnings….remember listening most Christmas growing up….beautiful…give him your heart…happy and healthy and peace to all for 2022 ❤️

Aaron Trill

1y↑5

3:43 will always make me sob. There is so much tension in the vocal parts and the rising harmonies in the organ are so perfectly written. Not to mention the gorgeous acapella section leading up to the organ entrance. This is the most touching arrangement of the carol that exists to me, and the words are so beautiful as always

griffin c

3y↑44

This hits on so many levels.

June Taylor

3y↑13

Thank you and Merry Christmas to everybody from here in Canada. I always listen to King's carols and am greatly blessed

Crofton Baptist Church UK

3y↑18

Haunting, stunning and beautiful! Reflects this particular Christmas perfectly.

Jam Boree

2y↑13

A year has passed and we have not been able to get rid of Covid-19. Now the Omikron version is upon us, and God knows how much are going to follow. I find peace of mind in these Christmas Carols. May God bless you all. Have a merry Christmas 2021 and a happy new year.

Large Male

2y↑3

We follow Christ, not the Church of Covid. Unfortunately, they punish us for this. Oh well.

SuperSuperfingers

3y↑16

This beautiful arrangement by Mack Wilberg is sung and played to perfection. It’s lovely to hear it performed in an Anglican setting with the organ masterfully emulating the orchestra. If you listen to the Tabernacle Choir performing this with Mack at the helm, you will know that Mr Hyde is spot on with this!

STELLA EKEH

3y↑2

I learnt and sang this hymn many years ago in an Anglican high school in Lagos Nigeria. But this year 2020 while experiencing my first winter/white Christmas in Ontario Canada, I've come to truly appreciate the lovely hymn. Thanks for this beautiful rendition.

The Hazza Vlog

2y↑6

This song will always bring back memories for me. I’m in a choir in the north of England and my first ever solo was the first verse of this song.

N P

2y↑9

God bless all those who lost a loved one to this devastating pandemic.

Merry Christmas from the US
🎄❤️

Anka Voskuilen

3y↑10

Never did I hear a bleaker midwinter. Did describe 2020 just right for me!!!!

OrganGuyPhil

3y↑20

Utter perfection. 🎶

Jasmine Thompson

3y↑4

This choir embodies the true spirit of Christmas ...such a joy to listen to.....

Hugh Shrapnel

3y↑21

Lovely to hear this arrangement to Holst's wonderfully haunting melody and beautifully sung. It so eloquently captures the mood of this sad and troubling year.

↞Jamz↠

2y↑3

Someday, I’d want to experience listening to a choir singing this live

bluegrasslass

2y↑6

My favourite Carol. In my early years we lived out in the Yorkshire countryside, and very deep snow was common. I loved singing this one in school.

Stephen Myers-Fulgham

1y↑3

My favorite Christmas Hymn! 🥰

Chikibongbong Bong

2y↑3

I'm not religious but I love listening to hymns. Music can really touch the soul and I love the sincerity and devotion you can hear in hymns.

JM

1y↑2

I'm the same, do enjoy the beauty in the music, art and architecture of Christianity

ClaireLovesForestGreen&Cambridge

1y↑1

I'm not religious either. I just like art and architecture. And I love, love, looooove music. But I fervently prefer the Harold Darke melody for this carol. Cranham is such a sad melody.

brian ross

Is there a more beautiful Carol than this and a sublime performance!

Jacques Verbrugghe

3y↑6

Extraordinaire beauté de cette musique, profondeur musicale. Magnifique.

professormuro

I concur, my friend. Not bad for English speakers (Lol)

Jimmy Mack

2y↑4

I love this version. I listen now to it for my friend my dearest friend Lynn, who died this year, and has no memorial

N P

2y↑2

I’m so sorry to hear that, dear
Peace and love from the US
❤️🎄

Trevor Orme

3y↑22

Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Bless you all. Much needed at this time.

David Hicks

Very special arrangement of In The Bleak Midwinter - love the slow pace and the chaps' voices are perfect.

ladytenor9876

3y↑7

This composition is a favorite of our choir and church. 💖🎼🎵🎶

JM

1y↑1

Beautiful 🖤

Joshua Shimizu

3y↑7

Dr. Wilberg, who arranged this piece, was my choir director in college; great memories. Thank you so much for this beautifully sung/played Christmas hymn.

Goro Majima

3y↑3

overwhelming sense of peace whenever I listen to this, thank you so much

David Mortimer

3y↑3

Watching and listening to this is so beautiful; a really heartfelt and poignant rendition. This made my heart sing.

Jamie Lawrence

3y↑6

One of the most beautiful things I’ve heard, magic.

Gerald Osborn

3y↑5

Cambridge Grad 1986, Miss hearing this Choir live. This is indeed a melancholy Christmas / New Year's Season. Wishes to all for a much better and perhaps even joyous 2021. Dr. Gerald Osborn

J Tay

2y↑3

EXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL !!!

Inge Nieuwstraten

3y↑3

a beautifully sung and played version, echoing our melancholy times perfectly

Georgia Beasley

3y↑12

Simply beautiful songs and singing. Angels must sound like this.

Trudi Dolder

3y↑7

Holst would approve of this rendition. Love it.

Tom Armstrong

Some things are just perfect. As a small boy I sang the solo verse of this carol in our church choir. I never really realised or attached much significance to the event at the time. Now as an old man, I believe deeply that if all children lived a similar experience their lives and attitudes to life would be subtlety altered for the better.

sharon shaw

2y↑1

Always gives me the chills and brings a tear ...poignant and sublime

GIVANILSON FERNANDES

2y↑3

Maravilhoso, muito celestial.

CJL Aviation

Awesome video! Mack Wilberg is such a good arranger! :)

Jans Dreagel

What a lovely performance.

Sylvia Kruger

Love the pipe organ, and singing on this beautiful Christmas carol!

flothoejmand

2y↑1

this is soooo beautiful, may it bring joy and relief !

mona2242

2y↑1

Absolutely sublime! So very grateful 🙏❤️🙏

Rob Smith Piano Progress

2y↑1

Absolutely mesmerising. Love it.

C.L Piano

2y↑5

Absolutely brilliant version of this carol, and the poignant interpretation is fitting for the pandemic. Thank you for the beautiful music🙏 I'm listening to this on repeat so that I may create a piano reduction for this ❤

Kevin Anderson

This is absolutely luscious, haunting, and gentle, yet so rich with meaning and texture with those chords. Beautiful.

amnesiacradar

Absolutely marvelous, we sang this in church as kids and didn't realise it was by Holst.

Peter

2y↑2

Beautiful. This my "spirit of Christmas 2021'. Thank you

Steven Jackson

2y↑2

Simply beautiful.

Emma Knight

2y↑1

what beautiful voices they have! made all the hair on the back of my neck stand up!!

Nicole Watts

3y↑47

Poignant and beautiful for a blue Christmas.

Jamie Lawrence

Blue means sad or down, hence the phrase “I’ve got the blues”.

Olive Bobo

This Carol always me sad, yet I still love it.

Jerry M

1y↑1

is beautiful to hear this treasure, on this early January morning

Irene Stephenson

1y↑1

❤ love this 💕 in the bleak midwinter ❤❤

Wildlife / supernanny fan 1355848

1y↑1

Such a emotional minor version for a sad year. What a historic time.

Susanne Flügel-Hilb

3y↑9

Wunderschön, vielen Dank dafür <3

Emuobo Agbahovbe

So beautiful!

susan santapola

That was just fabulous.

William Muth

Magnificent. Thank you for this beauty and solace in this moment in our lives.

Oti Bioh Joseph

3y↑6

This is soo soul soothing. Merry Christmas from Ghana

Thomas Tallerico

Simply beautiful

Bebberly Cumble

2y↑1

Shirley Cook

3y↑9

Thank you very much for your reply whoever you are!! Must have been heartbreaking for them to miss out on so much wonderful singing this year. There was one who sang recently a solo to a beautiful piece on Facebook. He has been in the choir for a long time. Then the beautiful blond boy who sang o holy night with Steven Cleobury so movingly. Finally the lad with glasses who was so musical-didn’t seem that he had been there long. Perhaps they leave for other reasons. I LOVE Kings! Thank you for the sublime music!! Xxxx

Philip Curtis

3y↑4

Miss singing in the choir so much!!

Rex Georg

What an enchanting performance

Alan von Au*****

3y↑6

Thank you for sharing the music of Christmastide! Greetings from the United States.

Barbara Santiago

2y↑5

My absolute favourite carol, sung beautifully =. Amen to giving my heart to Him who gave His all for me.

Juan Thomas Leal Masmela

2y↑2

Hermoso no hay nada más que lo defina simplemente hermoso

steve Rhenius

3y↑3

Had this on on Xmas Eve - stunning performance and great arrangement

Vincent de Ridder

3y↑4

Stunningly beautiful!

Hexagram 33

2y↑137

I went into town and there was not a carol to be heard. I remember a time when I actually got fed up of hearing carols in every shop and carol singers everywhere. What I would give to go back to those times now.

ClaireLovesForestGreen&Cambridge

1y↑6

I disagree. I can't get enough of traditional European Christmas carols. I hate American hymn tunes. I hate American secular carols even more. I wish I could move to England.

Hexagram 33

1y↑6

@ClaireLovesForestGreen&Cambridge me too, I love carols but they don't play them in public anymore in the UK and the town's Xmas lights could be for anything there's nothing Christmassy about them.
The past few years the amount of lights on some private houses has increased enormously but now with electricity going up 500% - it's almost like it was a deliberate strategy to stop people celebrating Xmas.

Anyway one of my favourite carols is Three Kings, not We Three Kings. And I love See Amid the Winter Snow and It came upon a midnight clear, and Lullee lulla, my little tiny child - I think that might be the Sussex carol. And quel est c'est odeur agreable. And the little drummer boy, a-rumpapumpum. 😄

Hexagram 33

1y↑1

@ClaireLovesForestGreen&Cambridge I made a playlist of the carols I love. Sorry about the ads.

ClaireLovesForestGreen&Cambridge

1y↑2

@Hexagram 33 I love lights, period. They squeal at me ("Aia!") because I have synesthesia.

Beemer

1y↑4

I was delighted to see the wonderful Salvation Army play in my recent visit to London.
In addition to this, my church has several Carol services and a carol concert this year and this weekend we are going to a carol service in a cave at Castleton in Derbyshire. The opportunity to hear beautiful Christmas carols is still here in England, but we need to see it more on the streets too for sure. It brings the true meaning and Spirit of Christmas into people.

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James Wilding

In the Bleak Midwinter' by Christina Rossetti, one of Rossetti's most well-known poems was written at the behest of the editor of Scribner's Monthly for the January edition of the publication in 1872. It was eventually to become one of the most loved English Christmas carols.

ZL54JK8

Was it just a matter of fulfilling a commission? Was there any element of inspiration attached to it?

James Wilding

@ZL54JK8 wish I could answer your question, my comment was taken as a snip from Wikipedia, a guess from me would be mere speculation but with research I am sure you will find an answer. Maybe my great grandmother Alexa Wilding could have, she and Christina did spend time together as Alexa was the well known face in many of the pre Raphaelite paintings of her brother (Gabriel). Suffice to say that the Rossetti's were a very talented family and left their mark on British art and poetry.'

Kyrie eleison

3y↑50

Well arranged music with beautiful chords...
I'm glad to be a Christian. Jesus is Lord!

Nick Randall

Listening to this means more than i can express....

Julia 222

2y↑4

What a beautiful song. What can I give Him? Give Him my heart.

Erick15_oliveira

Sou br mais gosto de ver eles cantar

albert wessels

so beautiful.

Alfred Royal

Verse 2 contains the finest and simplest words which sum it all up.

Idalia Jimenez

2y↑1

Marvelous!!

James Petts

2y↑2

This version certainly emphasises the "bleak" part.

Maureen Barnes

3y↑2

Thank you for this gift. Faith over fear!

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