Product ID | SON00002288 |
Composer | Colin Eatock |
Duration | 03:00 min |
Genre | Classical, Choral, Christmas |
Instrumentation | Choir and vocal ensemble |
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In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1998)
SKU | SON00002288 |
Composer | Colin Eatock |
Arranger | |
Genre | Classical Choral Christmas |
Instrumentation | Choir and vocal ensemble |
Free description | For a-cappella SATB choir |
Grade | 6 |
Duration | 03:00 min |
Year | 1998 |
Program Notes
For a-cappella SATB choir
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 any of 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.