In the Bleak Midwinter - Rob Wiffin

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The English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) set the words of Christina Rosetti’s poem In the Bleak Midwinter in a hymn-like version which was published as Cranham in the English Hymnal in 1906.  There have been other settings of the words, and the words themselves featured as a mantra in the TV programme Peaky Blinders.  However, Holst’s simple version retains the sense of austere beauty and afforded more opportunity to take a slightly lateral look at it.

String Orchestra

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