'In the bleak mid-winter'
From the album 'Christmas Night'

Composer Harold Darke
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
Orchestra City of London Sinfonia

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In the bleak mid-winter
Harold Darke was a London organist and composer. 'In the bleak mid-winter', perhaps his best-known composition, was written in 1911 and virtually forgotten until the early 1960s, when it was included in the King's College Christmas Eve service by Sir David Willcocks. The public response was immediate and unprecedented and the carol has enjoyed widespread and uninterrupted popularity ever since.

LYRICS:
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, Heav’n cannot hold him,
Nor earth sustain;
Heav’n 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.

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.
(Words: Christina Rossetti 1830–94)

Christmas Night
The theme of the album - Christmas Night - is the birth of Christ, reflected in the words and music of twenty-two carols spanning more than six centuries. Some of these carols have long been widely known and loved; others have become so thanks to the annual Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge. But all of them focus on the central event of the Christmas story – the birth at Bethlehem – and on the characters in that story: the angels, the shepherds, the wise men, and the mother with her child.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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