If I keep doing Christmas Songs, one year I could do a whole month of In The Bleak Midwinter. This rendition is by Kate Rusby from Holly Head. One of the reasons I like it is because she includes lots of verses, with no added choruses or bridges. 1. In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind …
In The Bleak Midwinter has some of the finest poetry and music of all Christmas carols. There may be better examples of theology, more memorable phrases and melodic hooks, but Rosetti’s words and Holst’s tune CRANHAM are superb from beginning to end. Shawn Colvin does it complete justice with this rendition.
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