About This Song
About "Holst: In The Bleak Midwinter" by St Paul's Cathedral Choir
Holst's setting of Rossetti is frost and fire: a bleak midwinter made luminous. St Paul's Cathedral Choir shapes the irregular phrases with tender precision, the organ a cold wind, the voices a hearth. The emotional core: what can we give? The answer, a heart, sung with devastating simplicity.