Our Christmas carol service brought my first chance to sing what I think is one of the most beautiful carols of all: the Wexford Carol. This gorgeous Irish melody doesn’t really need all the oooh-ing and aah-ing that John Rutter puts around it, but any chance to sing it is welcome.
In fact this service included some other composers I hadn’t sung before. These was a setting of Adam lay ybounden by Robert Walker, an arrangement of Es ist ein Ros’ (in English) by Mark Schweizer, and My Lord has Come by Will Todd (only a matter of time before I encountered the music of this last).