Cold the Winter Top Pick
For 2-part Mixed Choir and Keyboard - a beautiful and affecting carol with a text by Beverly Easterling. Perfect for Christmas and Epiphany and not too difficult. Learning tracks are available for this piece with a link available on the last page of the downloaded .pdf. Note that the recording is of the SATB version, which is available here.
Cold, the winter, Bright, the star,
Leading shepherds from afar,
Here the hopes of nations are:
Glory in excelsis.
Dark, the stable, Soft, the hay,
Where the baby Jesu lay,
On the world's dividing day:
Glory in excelsis.
Love: the Mother, Love: the child,
Every soul that saw them smiled.
Hope and heaven, reconciled:
Glory in excelsis.
Sing, all angels! Send the sound
Ringing through the world around.
By God's grace, salvation found:
Glory in excelsis.