Gloucester Cathedral Choir - In the Bleak Midwinter.flv

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a wonderful yet little known Christmas song- its very touching and the choir is great. James Taylor has a good version of it too...

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  • @twolefthanz
    @twolefthanz14 жыл бұрын

    It's not often you can get a choir and a congregation in such great time together. The English are so good at choral music.

  • @stephenfarthing3819

    @stephenfarthing3819

    Жыл бұрын

    I can agree.. As a Church Chorister myself. I can concur..

  • @RussiaAmericanDream

    @RussiaAmericanDream

    Жыл бұрын

    Have to mic choir and audience separately and match them up

  • @freeline39
    @freeline395 жыл бұрын

    I find that I cry a lot as I get older. Yes, I'm tearing up as I listen here. I don't blame me

  • @deibarnes1550

    @deibarnes1550

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely nothing wrong with that. 💙 I admire ppl who are sensitive and emotionally expressive.

  • @MichaelAnthony757

    @MichaelAnthony757

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could cry more easily. If one can cry I suppose the heart is set at liberty spiritually. . Crying is a privilege. . Grace has overcome our unbelief... 💙💙🤍🕊

  • @kamelhaj6850

    @kamelhaj6850

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here!

  • @christinescheiner5194

    @christinescheiner5194

    3 жыл бұрын

    I start crying immediately when I play this rendition. The beauty! The feeling!

  • @1thomson

    @1thomson

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm guessing that I can cry now, in my old age, because my vanity no longer requires me to maintain a pretense of tough invincibility that I know is simply foolish. And, as others have said here, crying also allows me to let go of whatever bitter poison I've been holding in my heart so that it no longer burns a hole in me. Both of these things are blessings, and I'm grateful, but to whom or what I don't know.

  • @SuperRocky74
    @SuperRocky743 жыл бұрын

    This is simply the best version of this song. I listen to it every Christmas

  • @gcook1493

    @gcook1493

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too , wonderful.

  • @JehuHernandez10

    @JehuHernandez10

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same.

  • @vegardjohansen9589

    @vegardjohansen9589

    2 жыл бұрын

    The worcester choir on Spotify has much better quality and in my opinion better balanced. But nevertheless what's right or wrong I don't care, this is beautiful aswell.

  • @SuperRocky74

    @SuperRocky74

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vegardjohansen9589 I'll look hem up

  • @redparrot53

    @redparrot53

    6 ай бұрын

    Best version by far is Chanticleer!❤❤❤❤❤

  • @elvers1
    @elvers1 Жыл бұрын

    For those of us fortunate enough to have been born in the Cotswolds, and who know Cranham, you'll know the music for this beautiful carol was composed in this village by Gustav Holst in 1906... What we Gloucestrians also know, is he captured the incredible spiritual feeling of the bleak, cold , misty environment to be found there in the middle of a Cotswold winter, which is deeply felt in this wonderful Christmas song...We might also wonder if Holst in gazing up to the Cranham milky-way peppered skies was inspired to write his Planets Suite, his most celebrated work, constantly played all over the world... Although Holst was born in Cheltenham, this version of the carol is appropriately played in Gloucester Cathedral, a mere 8 miles away, and really does justice to his skill as a composer in the way he, the choir and the congregation, fill this Gothic edifice with magnificent harmonious sound . It should also be said that the English lyricist/poet Christina Rossetti , who died in 1894, did not collaborate with Holst on the work, but how beautifully her words were merged into the piece by him to give the impression they wrote it together...Thank you to both for giving us the opportunity to share this fusion of genius...

  • @democafe4864

    @democafe4864

    6 ай бұрын

    Many thanks for telling the impressive and delightful information.

  • @markmanc-zw3td

    @markmanc-zw3td

    6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the info , visited Gloucester & cathedral a few years go- must go back soon its beautiful & historic.

  • @elvers1

    @elvers1

    6 ай бұрын

  • @10995
    @10995 Жыл бұрын

    I swear, the original Ghosts has so much more on our American version. having a song like this, introduces so much. I just wish the cast could have done a full song version for a special release.

  • @10995
    @10995 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Ghosts, never would have known about this song.

  • @christinescheiner5194
    @christinescheiner51943 жыл бұрын

    The MOST beautiful rendition on the most touching Carol ever. And beautifully filmed.

  • @8589brian
    @8589brian2 жыл бұрын

    Being Gloucester born and bred I have the privilege to hear this beautiful choir on a fairly regular basis. ❤

  • @yvonnewratten5855
    @yvonnewratten58556 ай бұрын

    Beautiful.

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse3 жыл бұрын

    Been here every holiday season, since this was uploaded. It's become a life staple.

  • @DualFrodo

    @DualFrodo

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is the best rendition, after all!

  • @andymilstenmusic8520

    @andymilstenmusic8520

    3 жыл бұрын

    John Riley The mom holding the baby makes me tear up...

  • @spookedhorse

    @spookedhorse

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andymilstenmusic8520 Quite touching, for sure. Merry Christmas.

  • @spookedhorse

    @spookedhorse

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DualFrodo fully agreed. Merry Christmas.

  • @MichaelAnthony757

    @MichaelAnthony757

    3 жыл бұрын

    Getting to attend an evening here and worship would be more than a sufficient Christmas gift. . . They still hold these hymn sings? 😍😍

  • @SharonWilliams-yu1bg
    @SharonWilliams-yu1bg Жыл бұрын

    My favorite Christmas music. Thank you Christina Rossetti for the words.

  • @mairimcgonigill4347
    @mairimcgonigill43476 ай бұрын

    Absolutely beautiful rendition of my favourite Carol, thank you. ❤❤

  • @songsmith31a
    @songsmith31a Жыл бұрын

    A beautiful setting of a timeless English carol in a beautiful English setting! Perfect.

  • @itzbaited9375
    @itzbaited93752 жыл бұрын

    Emptied my soul of badness, this is the best choir in the world

  • @joshuabrier7862
    @joshuabrier7862 Жыл бұрын

    To me this is winter perfection. Warm light, soul warming music

  • @deibarnes1550
    @deibarnes15503 жыл бұрын

    Celestial!

  • @danmarksbloggendanmarksblo1330
    @danmarksbloggendanmarksblo13302 жыл бұрын

    In Denmark only few know this song ... but it is so beautiful

  • @Tobiasskjacobsen

    @Tobiasskjacobsen

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah i agree! At least I know it :D "I den kolde vinter". Such an incredible song

  • @bobblebec12
    @bobblebec122 жыл бұрын

    Gloucester cathedral is beautiful and very special ❤️ the song magical…

  • @jessestewart169
    @jessestewart1692 жыл бұрын

    Merry Christmas all 2021.

  • @abbiemoran3053
    @abbiemoran30537 ай бұрын

    Come here every Christmas, just fantastic.

  • @katdes7305
    @katdes73053 жыл бұрын

    Just beautiful and a happy Christmas to you all in 2020, remember folks health is wealth

  • @Bluf24
    @Bluf24 Жыл бұрын

    One of the best versions on YT. Listen to it every year.

  • @juliaquets1679
    @juliaquets16793 жыл бұрын

    Still the best version. 🥰✝️

  • @chantehr5748
    @chantehr57483 жыл бұрын

    Love this version! Would love to participate in something like this...

  • @aliciasmith6638
    @aliciasmith66383 жыл бұрын

    SOOO beautiful....it made me cry... THANK YOU.

  • @kamelhaj6850
    @kamelhaj68503 жыл бұрын

    Something about that chord on the "win" of winter (and its resolution on the "ter") makes this song.

  • @spookedhorse

    @spookedhorse

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's a minor chord......always makes the tune.

  • @richardgreene5119
    @richardgreene5119 Жыл бұрын

    The sanctity of Jesus Christ reigns, as this lovely melody portrays. This is Christmas in actuality!

  • @gunner857
    @gunner857 Жыл бұрын

    Here again...lovely to hear as always....

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse Жыл бұрын

    Back for more in 2022! This is thee best! MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE TO YOU AND YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @gcook1493
    @gcook14932 жыл бұрын

    So wonderfully uplifting, I've been listening every year since it was uploaded, wouldn't be Christmas without my yearly top-up of this beautiful rendition.

  • @apekshalazarus9838
    @apekshalazarus9838 Жыл бұрын

    Amen 🙏

  • @robertdyson76
    @robertdyson763 жыл бұрын

    beautiful version

  • @conorbulloch8432
    @conorbulloch84327 ай бұрын

    Merry 2023 Christmas all.

  • @lukaszm5674
    @lukaszm5674 Жыл бұрын

    One of the best - THANK YOU!

  • @10995
    @1099511 ай бұрын

    my heart breaks that Ghosts will end after its 5th series/season. I mean it introduced me to this, and resulted in an american version. I don't want to lose the British cast.

  • @jodilynnbreeze
    @jodilynnbreeze4 ай бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @user-jb2oy9nc2i
    @user-jb2oy9nc2i2 жыл бұрын

    merry Christmas to everybody from Bavaria

  • @htl4782
    @htl4782 Жыл бұрын

    😇😍 Eines der besten Weihnachsvideos, ohne Hektik, Alt und Jung gemeinsam singend. Schöne Weihnachten

  • @apekshalazarus9838
    @apekshalazarus9838 Жыл бұрын

    Amen 🙏 love this

  • @markfriden7662
    @markfriden76622 жыл бұрын

    Once again, back to watch and hear this favorite - just like every yera.

  • @CWChan-xq1ik
    @CWChan-xq1ik Жыл бұрын

    A wonderful hymn, have you given your heart to Him?

  • @shelleycruz4456
    @shelleycruz44567 ай бұрын

    So beautiful!

  • @MargaretWishart-or3yt
    @MargaretWishart-or3yt7 ай бұрын

    Love this hymn & the tune.

  • @saffronjennifer19
    @saffronjennifer19 Жыл бұрын

    I love this 💖🌸

  • @Ms2blackcats
    @Ms2blackcats2 жыл бұрын

    gorgeous I hope this tradition is carried on every Christmas season

  • @kristyspencer8589
    @kristyspencer8589 Жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely beautiful! I tried to do more than one like, but it wouldn’t let me. One like is not enough.

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse3 жыл бұрын

    Merry Christmas!!

  • @YourOwnWay
    @YourOwnWay2 жыл бұрын

    Perfection.

  • @10995
    @109957 ай бұрын

    i will miss the British Ghosts. The British series has the heart and soul of the idea. This song which clearly transcended the generations(in spite of it being actually composed and written in the 19th Century) from caveman to modern woman. Prehistory, Georgian, Edwardian, Elizabethan, didn't matter, the song was part of a heritage. The British Show has this over the American show a thousand-fold. From beginning to end, they are part of the same British Heritage. From Robin, through the plague ghosts to Alison. All part of the same group. All British, from the very first caveman.

  • @memogarda
    @memogarda7 ай бұрын

    La mamma che bacia il bambino è da brividi....

  • @memogarda
    @memogarda7 ай бұрын

    Bellissimi e bravissimi !

  • @evgeniptolemy5570
    @evgeniptolemy55707 ай бұрын

    Merry Christmas, everyone!

  • @martinmanifold2241
    @martinmanifold22412 жыл бұрын

    Driving into garston village yesterday , temp 30c ..and this tune pops into my head .....not even a tune im that familiar with.....hmmm what was gods message in yesterdays blistering heat i wonder

  • @apekshalazarus9838
    @apekshalazarus98382 жыл бұрын

    Amen 🙏🏻

  • @Luke-wq1sx
    @Luke-wq1sx3 жыл бұрын

    "In the bleak mid winter" - Thomas Shelby

  • @maureenscott2978

    @maureenscott2978

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you'll find it's from a poem by Christina Rossetti,an English poet ,set to music by Gustav holst

  • @MrYorickJenkins
    @MrYorickJenkins3 жыл бұрын

    Hardly little known. Well known and much loved. καὶ τὸ βρέφος κείμενον ἐν τῇ φάτνῃ.

  • @siliconesal
    @siliconesal Жыл бұрын

    Christina Rossetti - legend

  • @kevinmurphy4714
    @kevinmurphy47142 жыл бұрын

    So sorry you no longer allow this to be shared to Facebook. It is the loveliest carol which I share with friends home and abroad every year, until this one. Please reconsider.

  • @kevincassidy1983
    @kevincassidy19833 жыл бұрын

    A lot of comments were deleted from here. How sad

  • @jonathancooper5104

    @jonathancooper5104

    2 жыл бұрын

    prob purged all the peaky blinder comments, no complaints from me

  • @kevincassidy1983

    @kevincassidy1983

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jonathancooper5104 no. They deleted people speaking about their memories. It's very sad

  • @guilhermebraga4950
    @guilhermebraga49503 жыл бұрын

    Por ordem dos malditos Peaky Blinders! 🖤

  • @Lumisatmi
    @Lumisatmi11 жыл бұрын

    Holst's arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter - surely not "little known"?

  • @thebrokenrattle

    @thebrokenrattle

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's not exactly all over the radio, I think that's what they meant.

  • @soupdragon151

    @soupdragon151

    Жыл бұрын

    Depends where you are I think, well known in the UK, elsewhere not so much

  • @philippowell3320
    @philippowell3320 Жыл бұрын

    Does anybody know who's arrangement this is?

  • @deth-gn2nz
    @deth-gn2nz2 жыл бұрын

    1:43

  • @ruthbarron625
    @ruthbarron6257 ай бұрын

    F major?

  • @comment8767
    @comment87676 ай бұрын

    What happens to the lamb after the shepherd donates it?

  • @stanleywoodison8699

    @stanleywoodison8699

    6 ай бұрын

    It was spit roasted

  • @comment8767

    @comment8767

    6 ай бұрын

    @@stanleywoodison8699 Correct. Except in Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions, they are ground up and served as gyros.

  • @moonlightshadow2074
    @moonlightshadow2074 Жыл бұрын

    The music is bliss. But please don’t put your religious views onto your kids. Please let them decide for themselves

  • @nbuehster
    @nbuehster2 жыл бұрын

    If this song's accurate, then Christ wasn't born in December, since it isn't officially winter until the 21st. If he was born in midwinter, then my guess would be late January, or February.

  • @kevincassidy1983

    @kevincassidy1983

    8 ай бұрын

    If Jesus was born is Israel, then the entire song I'd wrong. It's just a European impression of the facts, its not historical

  • @maxmoran7039
    @maxmoran7039 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

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