Your Favourite Christmas Carols

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

And so inspired by the Favourite Xmas Songs thread - let's be hearing it for Christmas Carols. There are many lovely carols - the popular ones - and those we don't often hear - with stunning music and beautiful words.

One of my favs is In the Bleak Midwinter (with setting by Harold Darke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbkAqZpbTQ

Another less well known and lovely one is The Sans Day Carol (trad Cornish carol arr John Rutter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiVSiTrHGg

 

[ger147]

And so inspired by the Favourite Xmas Songs thread - let's be hearing it for Christmas Carols. There are many lovely carols - the popular ones - and those we don't often hear - with stunning music and beautiful words.

One of my favs is In the Bleak Midwinter (with setting by Harold Darke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbkAqZpbTQ

Another less well known and lovely one is The Sans Day Carol (trad Cornish carol arr John Rutter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiVSiTrHGg

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[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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[bobmac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3_Kr2nLtA

 

[Neilds]

And so inspired by the Favourite Xmas Songs thread - let's be hearing it for Christmas Carols. There are many lovely carols - the popular ones - and those we don't often hear - with stunning music and beautiful words.

One of my favs is In the Bleak Midwinter (with setting by Harold Darke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbkAqZpbTQ

Another less well known and lovely one is The Sans Day Carol (trad Cornish carol arr John Rutter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiVSiTrHGg

Mrs S hates 'In the Bleak Midwinter' - says it is depressing.

We went to Blenheim Palace a couple of years back and a posh school choir were in the library with all their admiring parents dressed in tweed and hunter wellies. As we were passing through the started singing In the Bleak Midwinter and Mrs S got a mix of a coughing fit and a giggling fit and had to hide behind the curtain to avoid the stares from the disapproving parents! can't take her anywhere!!

 

[upsidedown]

Noel for me , happy memories of family Christmas's of old when we sang this badly as a family

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Mrs S hates 'In the Bleak Midwinter' - says it is depressing.

We went to Blenheim Palace a couple of years back and a posh school choir were in the library with all their admiring parents dressed in tweed and hunter wellies. As we were passing through the started singing In the Bleak Midwinter and Mrs S got a mix of a coughing fit and a giggling fit and had to hide behind the curtain to avoid the stares from the disapproving parents! can't take her anywhere!!

Shame Mrs S dislikes it for being depressing. The words are beautiful - a poem by Christina Rossetti - and I prefer the Darke setting so much more than the better known setting by Holst.

 

[User20205]

Little donkey always moves me :thup:

 

[full_throttle]

can i vote for Carol Vordeman

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3_Kr2nLtA

lovely

 

[richart]

can i vote for Carol Vordeman

I was going for Carol Kirkwood. I like the older women.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I was going for Carol Kirkwood. I like women the same age as me .

Edited for accuracy

 

[HomerJSimpson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3_Kr2nLtA

Nice, Definitely one of my favourites although Hark the Herald Angels is another good one I enjoy belting out

 

[gregers]

think this is a great version of holy night,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRqycwRFWuc&index=2&list=PLps2hQZ1K218_aHm2TBHyns3Rme-wndyc

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Hark the Herald Angels and Once in Royal David's City top my list.

And if anyone here votes for Carol Decker from T'Pau, punches are going to be thrown

 

[Rooter]

I always rated Karol Poborsky.

 

[jdpjamesp]

Thanks for this thread!! Somehow missed it earlier.
Hark the Herald and O Come All Ye Faithful for me.
Quite like this folky version of O Holy Night
[video=youtube;TrlgBlCQ86Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlgBlCQ86Y&list=PLuMVFoZT6ZdKPEgPk9JLtTy-cPfyRDQCD&index=6[/video]

 

[MashieNiblick]

The Sussex Carol
The Holly and the Ivy
Oh Tannenbaum

Nice tunes.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Traditional- o come all ye faithful / Hark the Herald Angels sing. Both belters

Modern Carol , The Florin Street Band- my favorite time of year

Happy Easter

 

[gregers]

modern 1 for then its this 1,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q