Golden Carol
03:14 duration|Composed in 2024|Difficulty: Intermediate|First performed: December 2024
Commissioned by Tim Reader for The Epiphoni Consort on their 10th anniversary in 2024.
The emotional range of this text provided opportunities to use a more dissonant harmonic language in places, which is rare in carol writing!
Golden Carol – sung by The Epiphoni Consort
Text
We saw the light shine out afar,
On Christmas in the morning,
And straight we knew Christ’s star it was,
Bright beaming in the morning.
Then did we fall on bended knee,
On Christmas in the morning,
And praised the Lord, who’d let us see
His glory at its dawning.
Oh! every thought be of His name,
On Christmas in the morning,
Who bore for us both grief and shame,
Affliction’s sharpest scorning.
And may we die, when death shall come,
On Christmas in the morning,
And see in heav’n, our glorious home,
That Star of Christmas morning.
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