Your Favourite Christmas Carols

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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
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
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 said:
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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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!!:o
 
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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!!:o
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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.
 
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 :o
 
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]
 
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
 
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