Chanticleer - In the Bleak Mid-Winter

Chanticleer - In the Bleak Mid-Winter

From the album Sing We Christmas

Please purchase the album to support these talented musicians!

Recorded in a beautiful church in the old walled city of Kempen during a November 1994 tour of Germany, Sing We Christmas represents many western European traditions and a great variety of time periods, languages and styles. A wonderful collection offering traditional and contemporary settings of holiday music, including anthems, canons, carols, dances, hymns and motets.

Photography by S. Nevalainen at stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Chanticleer
• In the Bleak Mid-Winter
• Christmas
• carol
• choir
• choral

[vaniljapulla]

Is it wrong of me to love this piece (and any other) because I am an atheist?... It is such a sublime piece; I'd just like to stand up for us non-believers that we can and *do* appreciate the artistic gifts that those of you that do believe in something supernatural give to the rest of us. Thank you ever so much.

[TheGingerellas]

@vaniljapulla No, it is wrong of you to be an atheist.

[vaniljapulla]

@TheGingerellas :p ;D (At least I'm hoping that you're being sarcastic!...)

[huminihoo07]

@Blados3rd

Who are you? (Besides a pretentious douche who thinks he can represent all professional musicians, that is).  You're listening to the world's greatest male ensemble, and saying that the music they are singing is only good for high schools, and the must be struggling if they want to perform it? Really? REALLY?

I suggest a piece of humble pie for dinner.

[EcoleaSchwerinMusik]

I don't know why they made the key change after the beginning--- :(

[dmph3]

It's amazing to think that this music is harmonized using the exact same harmonic rules employed by Bach, Mozart, Debussey, Gershwin and Paart. To put this in wine spectator terms, this has a bouquet of Herbert Howells, arrives on the palate with light overtones of jazz, with an utterly celestial finish. like all compositions of such sophistication, it won't be appreciated (or understood) by all. it's not meant to be popular...just perfect.

[MaximusNYC]

Beautifully arranged and performed. But the repeated key changes are jarring and follow no musical logic that I can perceive; they just seem like gratuitous showing off.

[SheChoosesReason]

@vaniljapulla - I agree!

: )

[emileabib]

Divine music!

[ig2d]

@vaniljapulla this is what G K Chesterton says in his book Orthodoxy: "Spiritual doctrines do not actually limit the mind as do materialistic denials. Even if I believe in immortality I need not think about it. But if I disbelieve in immortality I must not think about it. In the first case the road is open and I can go as far as I like; in the second the road is shut. "

[bryanabeling]

@vaniljapulla

You're welcome! And no, it's not wrong! But the person you really should be thanking is the one who gave you the ability to perceive and appreciate this and all beauty. He gives this common grace to all people, each of whom bear his image. In Him we all "live and move and have our being." We appreciate beauty because He is beautiful and the author of it. Friend, I hope you have a wonderful and BLESSED Christmas!