In the Bleak Midwinter

Merry Yule and 2018 Christmas Special from YIDNETH studio In the Bleak Midwinter Christmas Carol All instruments and voices in this version by Priscilla Hernandez (yidneth.com)

MP3 already available at my Patreon: http://patreon.com/yidneth Thanks to my patrons.

Special thanks to Adriann Nunn, Alfredo Armas, Rhiannon Hutchinson, Krishna Rose and Vincent Nijman. And also to the rest of my patrons.

In the Bleak Midwinter is one of my favourite Christmas Carols. It's based on a poem written in 1870 by English writer Christina Rosetti (who I already love because of "The Goblin Market") and was added Gustav Holst music (English Composer best known for his Planets Suite) in 1906, and later on as Anthem by Harold Darke (1911). I only covered the first verse which is the one that only speaks of Nature and the Winter Solstice, but it belongs to a longer poem. Still this is my favourite verse and part with no other religious reference but painting a wintry landscape portrait. I mentioned in previous entries that for me Yule (Winter Solstice) is not only important because the Wheel of the Year comes to an end and brings a new chance to refresh our resolutions but also because it's the longest Night in the Year and the moment Winter starts. We think of Winter as a "dark" and "cold" season, but truely from "Midwinter" on, every day becomes longer. It looks like a contradiction but "The Dark season" marks also "the return of Light"

Lyrics Excerpt of the poem by

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.

Featuring the guest appearance of "Hirvi" Location: Guest deer stars: Hirvi and Vasa Hirvi is the stag that appears in all the close ups. He is a red deer I have befriended and already appeared in my videoclip "Grow". I often feed him so we have gained his trust. He lives in a protected reserve with his doe and two young fawn. The rest of the video filmed in Urbasa and Quinto Real (Navarra, Spain) by @hedac and @yidneth There is a one second footage of a herd that is CC0 PD. The original "In the Bleak Midwinter" was released over 100 years ago and belongs now to "Public Domain"