Listen here.

Another confession: in general I am not all that fond of Rufus Wainwright. He's very talented but I have a particular horror of whiny tenors. And yet... I quite like this. Go figure. Apparently this song played a fairly major part in his rise to fame thanks to this Gap commercial:

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We sang this for choir last year, which was fun; ( Read more... )

Apologies, Grooveshark doesn't have this one and I'm scared of their TOS. However, here's a live version from the Royal Albert Hall:

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This site has abundant notes on this carol:

Concerning this carol, Joshua Sylvestre observed in 1861 that

As is the case of some of the preceding [Dives and Lazarus], there are, doubtless, expressions in this ( Read more... )