Gloucester Cathedral Choir - In the Bleak Midwinter.flv

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  • @yvonnewratten5855
    @yvonnewratten5855 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Beautiful.

  • @mairimcgonigill4347
    @mairimcgonigill4347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

  • @Rosanna-yu3le
    @Rosanna-yu3le 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Best version ever, 10 years till I found it and still listening to this only

  • @twolefthanz
    @twolefthanz 14 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @RussiaAmericanDream
      @RussiaAmericanDream ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have to mic choir and audience separately and match them up

  • @abbiemoran3053
    @abbiemoran3053 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Come here every Christmas, just fantastic.

  • @freeline39
    @freeline39 6 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @MichaelAnthony757
      @MichaelAnthony757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same here!

    • @christinescheiner5194
      @christinescheiner5194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @1thomson
      @1thomson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

  • @songsmith31a
    @songsmith31a ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @SharonWilliams-yu1bg
    @SharonWilliams-yu1bg ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @SuperRocky74
    @SuperRocky74 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

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

    • @gcook1493
      @gcook1493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too , wonderful.

    • @JehuHernandez10
      @JehuHernandez10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same.

    • @vegardjohansen9589
      @vegardjohansen9589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vegardjohansen9589 I'll look hem up

    • @redparrot53
      @redparrot53 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @elvers1
    @elvers1 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    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 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Many thanks for telling the impressive and delightful information.

    • @markmanc-zw3td
      @markmanc-zw3td 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @elvers1
      @elvers1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

  • @8589brian
    @8589brian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

  • @christinescheiner5194
    @christinescheiner5194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

  • @joshuabrier7862
    @joshuabrier7862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @carolemerkel9332
    @carolemerkel9332 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Soooooooooo beautiful!!!

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

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

    • @DualFrodo
      @DualFrodo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is the best rendition, after all!

    • @andymilstenmusic8520
      @andymilstenmusic8520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @spookedhorse
      @spookedhorse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @spookedhorse
      @spookedhorse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DualFrodo fully agreed. Merry Christmas.

    • @MichaelAnthony757
      @MichaelAnthony757 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @itzbaited9375
    @itzbaited9375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @MargaretWishart-or3yt
    @MargaretWishart-or3yt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this hymn & the tune.

  • @shelleycruz4456
    @shelleycruz4456 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So beautiful!

  • @deibarnes1550
    @deibarnes1550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Celestial!

  • @gunner857
    @gunner857 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Bluf24
    @Bluf24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @bobblebec12
    @bobblebec12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @danmarksbloggendanmarksblo1330
    @danmarksbloggendanmarksblo1330 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @Tobiasskjacobsen
      @Tobiasskjacobsen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @10995
    @10995 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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.

  • @user-jb2oy9nc2i
    @user-jb2oy9nc2i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    merry Christmas to everybody from Bavaria

  • @maxmoran7039
    @maxmoran7039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful

  • @aliciasmith6638
    @aliciasmith6638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @lukaszm5674
    @lukaszm5674 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best - THANK YOU!

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @gcook1493
    @gcook1493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amen 🙏 love this

  • @CWChan-xq1ik
    @CWChan-xq1ik ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @jessestewart169
    @jessestewart169 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Merry Christmas all 2021.

  • @robertdyson76
    @robertdyson76 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    beautiful version

  • @conorbulloch8432
    @conorbulloch8432 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Merry 2023 Christmas all.

  • @chantehr5748
    @chantehr5748 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @katdes7305
    @katdes7305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @markfriden7662
    @markfriden7662 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @richardgreene5119
    @richardgreene5119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @10995
    @10995 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @10995
    @10995 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @Ms2blackcats
    @Ms2blackcats 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    gorgeous I hope this tradition is carried on every Christmas season

  • @memogarda
    @memogarda 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bellissimi e bravissimi !

  • @juliaquets1679
    @juliaquets1679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Still the best version. 🥰✝️

  • @kamelhaj6850
    @kamelhaj6850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @spookedhorse
      @spookedhorse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @lancevance60
      @lancevance60 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@spookedhorse It resolves to a minor chord, but the striking effect on the "win-" syllable is created by the stacked perfect fourths.

  • @htl4782
    @htl4782 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @YourOwnWay
    @YourOwnWay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perfection.

  • @evgeniptolemy5570
    @evgeniptolemy5570 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Merry Christmas, everyone!

  • @10995
    @10995 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks Ghosts, never would have known about this song.

  • @saffronjennifer19
    @saffronjennifer19 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this 💖🌸

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Merry Christmas!!

  • @martinmanifold2241
    @martinmanifold2241 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @kristyspencer8589
    @kristyspencer8589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @apekshalazarus9838
    @apekshalazarus9838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amen 🙏🏻

  • @MrYorickJenkins
    @MrYorickJenkins 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @siliconesal
    @siliconesal ปีที่แล้ว

    Christina Rossetti - legend

  • @kevincassidy1983
    @kevincassidy1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A lot of comments were deleted from here. How sad

    • @jonathancooper5104
      @jonathancooper5104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @kevincassidy1983
      @kevincassidy1983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @kevinmurphy4714
    @kevinmurphy4714 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @JohnDiffley-bh4vh
    @JohnDiffley-bh4vh 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I am the first and the last, beautiful

  • @Lumisatmi
    @Lumisatmi 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @thebrokenrattle
      @thebrokenrattle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @soupdragon151
      @soupdragon151 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Luke-wq1sx
    @Luke-wq1sx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "In the bleak mid winter" - Thomas Shelby

    • @maureenscott2978
      @maureenscott2978 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jarodpyron6992
    @jarodpyron6992 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks, Peaky Blinders.

  • @guilhermebraga4950
    @guilhermebraga4950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Por ordem dos malditos Peaky Blinders! 🖤

  • @memogarda
    @memogarda 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @comment8767
    @comment8767 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happens to the lamb after the shepherd donates it?

    • @stanleywoodison8699
      @stanleywoodison8699 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was spit roasted

    • @comment8767
      @comment8767 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @deth-gn2nz
    @deth-gn2nz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:43

  • @philippowell3320
    @philippowell3320 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does anybody know who's arrangement this is?

  • @ruthbarron625
    @ruthbarron625 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    F major?

  • @moonlightshadow2074
    @moonlightshadow2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @nbuehster
    @nbuehster 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @jodilynnbreeze
    @jodilynnbreeze 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful

  • @apekshalazarus9838
    @apekshalazarus9838 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amen 🙏