Christmas Carols - Favourites

I like all carols, but especially love 'It was on a Starry Night' sung by children

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Once in Royal David's City because I remember singing the first verse solo as a child in our small village church choir.

“Three kings from Persian lands”…is my favourite too, but for some reason….”in the bleak midwinter” sticks in my head the whole year, and I find myself humming it in the heat of Summer

O Holy Night.

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear.

The Holly And The Ivy.

One of the gentlest and loveliest, I think - “Quem Pastores Laudavere”.

As an infant teacher many years ago we really had to practise "Little Donkey", it sounded like a durged and one little voice piped up if we sing this one more time Mrs... that donkey will be knackered.So we sent it to the stable for a rest.

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The Harold Darke version of 'In the Bleak Midwinter'. And John Rutter's Candlelight Carol.

joannapiano

The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol by John Rutter.. Anything by him. We love singing his work in our choir. Lovely melodious tunes.

Love the Shepherd’s Pipe carol too. Also I like Like a Candle Flame by Graham Kendrick and Lullay Allelluia by Skip Ewing.
Away in a manger, sung by children, always makes me cry.

O come, o come Emmanuel by the choir Libera

It came upon the midnight clear.......

"And man at war with man hears not the love song that they bring; so hush the noise ye men of strife and hear the angels sing,"

Exactly - makes me well up every time I sing it. I hold out no hope of this being achieved.

Ding Dong merrily on high

Oh, I can have more than one....
Hmmm,
The Holly And The Ivy
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
O Little Town Of Bethlehem

joannapiano

The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol by John Rutter.. Anything by him. We love singing his work in our choir. Lovely melodious tunes.

I mis-read this as ‘The Shepherd’s PIE Carol’!

Greyduster

One of the gentlest and loveliest, I think - “Quem Pastores Laudavere”.

‘Quibus angeli dixere….’
We used to sing that at school!
A lovely one, but you hardly ever hear it.

I love all carols but a new one for our choir this year is ‘Mary Did You Know?’ It is beautiful. There is a version on the internet but it does not to me sound so good with American accents, I prefer our choir version!

We have been singing The Bee Carol, which was the winner of the 2018 Radio 3 carol composition competition. It is based on a poem by Carol Ann Duffy. It is much more difficult than it sounds, s the 2 last verses have some challenging, but beautiful, harmonies.

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Thanks Lexisgranny! I too can imagine your great grandfather singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. How beautiful! ?

BlueSapphire

The Harold Darke version of 'In the Bleak Midwinter'. And John Rutter's Candlelight Carol.

I also love The Candlelight Carol Blue Sapphire I had it played as a request on Classic FM for my oldest DD the day after she gave birth to her baby girl, close to Christmas.

Same DD married a few days before Christmas and walked down the aisle to "O Holy Night" It still moves me to tears.

Bethlehem Down is beautiful.

Oh Holy Night, from Carols from Kings - beautiful.

Germanshepherdsmum

*Lauren*, I wish you hadn’t said that. An animal in desperate need of help spoiling your enjoyment of a Christmas carol? Where’s your humanity? Sorry to derail and bring a sour note to the thread but as an animal lover I couldn’t ignore it.

I really don’t see how anyone could misunderstand my post!

My point was that the carol is now associated in my mind with the image of the dog, which is distressing. I wasn’t complaining about it.

I am an animal lover myself and volunteer for groups that feed stray cats and foster homeless dogs. I certainly didn’t mean to offend anyone!

Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar and Oh come oh come Emmanuel. We sang the latter on Sunday!

I always loved O Come O Come Emmanuel, since it was the first we always sang in school assembly after the beginning of Advent. It meant Christmas was coming!