In the Bleak Midwinter

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In the Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst

About In the Bleak Midwinter

Although the lyrics were written as a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti before 1872, it was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904 and became a Christmas carol after it appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906 with a setting by gustav Holst. According to the website Cyber Hymnal, Rossetti wrote these words in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem. In 2008 Harold Darke's setting In the .

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About this song

Credited to
Gustav Holst, Philip Arkwright, The Choir of Buckfast Abbey, Matthew Searles
Album
Puer natus est: Christmas Day Mass from Buckfast Abbey · Track 13 of 17
Released
November 20, 2020
Duration
4:16
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