Caldecott, The Yule Log, 1886
An Oyster Months-approved songbook of Yuletide drones and dirges ...
The pitchy gloom without makes the heart dilate on entering the room filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire. The ruddy blaze diffuses an artificial summer and sunshine through the room, and lights up each countenance into a kindlier welcome. Where does the honest face of hospitality expand into a broader and more cordial smile—where is the shy glance of love more sweetly eloquent—than by the winter fireside? and as the hollow blast of wintry wind rushes through the hall, claps the distant door, whistles about the casement, and rumbles down the chimney, what can be more grateful than that feeling of sober and sheltered security with which we look round upon the comfortable chamber and the scene of domestic hilarity?Washington Irving, from "Old Christmas," found in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Winter
VOCES8
Silent Night: Early Christmas Music & Carols
Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen
Yule
Trio Mediæval
Winter Songs
Ola Gjeilo, Choir Of Royal Holloway, and 12 Ensemble
On a Cold Winter's Day: Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles
Quadriga Consort
Winter's Delights: Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles
Quadriga Consort
On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols and Motets
Anonymous 4
Sing Heigh Ho! Unto the Green Holly!
Folger Consort
Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols
Anonymous 4
A Deep But Dazzling Darkness
Apollo5
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