Wenceslas, Bleak

[grubbybastard]

I'm looking to buy a few recordings of Good King Wenceslas and In the Bleak Midwinter to round out my Christmas mix -- mostly I have albums of individual artists, who tend not to cover choral pieces like these, so I'm missing them. Do you have a favorite recording of either/both?

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[junyr]

Good King Wenceslas - Loreena McKennitt - A Winter Garden
In the Bleak Midwinter (and the whole album) - Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong

[ascendant]

there is a tori amos version of good king wencelas but i've never heard it personally.

[fr_defenestrato]

Emailing one of each, to livejournal@grubbybastard.com and grubbybastard@livejournal.com. Wenceslas by The Deller Consort (my caroling group also uses this arrangement, which seems to me in all ways perfect); the Bleak tune is regrettably performed by the Suspicious Cheese Lords and that should give you some idea of why I finally left that group.

[mmmmtino]

Cyndi Lauper does a great version of In the Bleak Midwinter (on Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life!) and James Taylor does one too. It's one of my very favorite carols.

[jonsthoughts]

I'm fairly certain that Sufjan Stevens has put them on his Christmas albums. They're all the way across the room or I'd tell you for certain. The alternate plan involves opening a new tab and googling it... I'm lazy after playing for children at church.

[jonsthoughts]

I was wrong. He does have a song called "Get Behind Me, Santa", though. So there's that.