Preview: In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1998)
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SKU: A0.1321450
Composed by Colin Eatock. 20th Century,Christmas,Classical. 16 pages. Colin Eatock Music #909909. Published by Colin Eatock Music (A0.1321450).A cappella SATB choir; ca. 3 min; can be paired with Cast Off All Doubtful Care (2012).
The composer writes: I chose to set four of the five stanzas of Christina Rossetti’s famous text of 1872 to music for two reasons. First, I liked the poem. I was attracted to Rossetti’s profound metaphysical imagery, curiously and yet comfortably wedded to a kind of Pre-Raphaelite simplicity.
The second reason was because I had never heard any of the previous settings of this poem. I was aware that Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten, Harold Darke and others had composed settings of the text, but it was only after I had written my own version that I listened to these works. I saw my ignorance as a virtue, as it meant that I would not be unduly influenced by those who had gone before me.
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