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Track(s) taken from KGS0060-D

In the bleak mid-winter

composer
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
arranger
Mack Wilberg (b1955)
author of text
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

King's College Choir Cambridge, Daniel Hyde (conductor), Matthew Martin (organ)
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Recording details: June 2021
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Benjamin Sheen
Engineered by Benjamin Sheen
Release date: November 2021
Total duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds
 

Gustav Holst’s folk-style setting, which tailors Rossetti’s words to four repeated verses, was first published in 1906 in The English Hymnal and soon established its place among the great hymns of Christmas. Mack Wilberg, music director of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, brings sublime stasis to his arrangement with mantra-like melodic repetitions and close chromatic harmonies that meld like fallen snow.

from notes by Andrew Stewart © 2021

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