Dec 12, 2017
Bethlehem Down | Peter Warlock Had the pleasure of singing this tonight at my end of year staff Eucharist/dinner. I’ll have it stuck in my head for the next week, I’m sure.
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Bethlehem Down | Peter Warlock Had the pleasure of singing this tonight at my end of year staff Eucharist/dinner. I’ll have it stuck in my head for the next week, I’m sure.
From Wikipedia:
"Bethlehem Down" is a Christmas carol for SATB choir composed in 1927 by British composer Peter Warlock (1894–1930)—the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine.[a] It is set to a poem written by journalist and poet Bruce Blunt (1899–1957). Warlock and Blunt wrote the carol to finance an "immortal carouse" (a heavy bout of drinking) over Christmas in 1927. The pair submitted the carol to The Daily Telegraph's annual Christmas carol contest and won. It is characterised by modal harmony with chromatic inflections. The musicologist Barry Smith described "Bethlehem Down" as the finest of all of Warlock's choral music.
This version appears on the Japanese edition of Sting's If On A Winter's Night... album, which helped inspire this blog.
Bethlehem Down ~ Peter Warlock
Gives me chills!
The best and most beautiful Christmas song : Peter Warlock's "Bethlehem Down"