About This Song
About "In the Bleak Midwinter, H.73, No. 1" by Ross Pople
Holst's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' is a frozen tableau, its melody a single candle against a snowbound horizon. Ross Pople draws out the carol's tender paradox: a serene, almost brittle calm that trembles with the ache of something sacred and impossibly distant.