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CH4003

In the bleak midwinter

Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: Christina Rossetti
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words by Christina Rossetti (1830-94)
set to music by Sheena Phillips
SATB & pianoperformance time approx 3m 30s
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I wanted to give Christina Rossetti's famous Christmas text about bleak mid-winter a more truly bleak atmosphere than the more well known settings. This piece depicts the snow as cold and relentless, giving a more awesome slant to the Christmas story of a Saviour's birth. The final verse ('Our God, earth cannot hold him') can be omitted for a shorter piece.
A recording by Rudsambee company of singers (without final verse) is available on the album Dies natalis invicti solis (RUBEECD001).

Words

In the bleak midwinter
In the bleak mid-winter,
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone.
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him,
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign;
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
Christina Rossetti (1830-94)
(extracts from the full poem)

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