What is your favourite Carol?

[antelopevalley]

I love Hark the Herald Angels sing. Very rousing and uplifting.
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Hark the herald for me too. Ideally involving a proper choir so they can do all the high bits at the end, just gorgeous. (But I like to be singing along too… not doing the high bits!)

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (trad and Gardner versions)
Sussex Carol reminds me of my dear dad 🥰

In the Bleak Midwinter

This is mine too!

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This is mine too!

Adam Lay Ybounden

Short but utterly beautiful.

Gaudete also giving me all the tingles this year.

Hark! The Hearld Angels Sing.

All day long. Love it

See Amidst The Winter Snow

Rarely sing it these days .. we are off to a cathedral Carol service tonight, really looking forward to it.

I was thinking about this last night. It's curious, but the carols I like most are ones about cold & snow (In the Bleak Midwinter, See Amid the Winter Snow, Good King Wenceslas), which, of course, wouldn't be relevant to Palestine.

I love Berlioz's l'Adieu des Bergers (shepherds' farewell) but I've never thought of it as a Christmas carol.

So many! Some I love because of the words
It came upon the Midnight Clear - so very relevant still today
How suddenly a baby cries for it's simplicity and including other lesser figures in the story - Simeon and Anna
Others less about the words ( many are biblically a bit dodgy) but have lovely tunes
Jesus Christ the Apple tree
Others for the memories they invoke of childhood carol services Once in Royal
Three kings from Persian lands

I don't have just one. For really getting into the Christmas mood, I love Come and Join the Celebration and the Calypso Carol. But for Christmas Eve in church it has to be O Come All Ye Faithful.

A great and mighty wonder
O little town of Bethlehem
The shepherd's carol (Bob Chilcott)
Gaudete (although it does always make me think of Alan Partridge)
Today the Virgin
A spotless rose
The Sans Day carol

And then loads of weird, renaissance and baroque Spanish/Iberian and new world stuff.

The First Noel or Silent Night

This is my absolute favourite aswell. 😍

The Coventry Carol. Flipping love it.

As quite a serious choral singer (soprano), I have to say Hark the Herald Angels always makes me think OH NO, because it's always the last congregational piece in a carol service, and the descant is punishingly high after you've already tired yourself out belting out the rest of it.

It's not strictly a carol, but Pearsall's version of In Dulci Jubilo is guaranteed to make me feel very Christmassy and tingly.

Wow thought I would be the only person to list this one! It was my mother's favorite too - when we used to go carol singing we would always finish up at home and sing this one for her

is a good version, as is one.

In the Bleak Midwinter comes a close second for me

O'Holy Night 🎄

all of them, but Adeste Fideles, While Shepherds Watched, Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar, and the Wexford Carol (sometimes claimed as 'the oldest Christmas carol, which is stretching it).

I also love the way St Patrick's Cathedral choir in Dublin end their festival of nine lessons and carols with Thine be the Glory - not a Christmas carol, but hearing that on the radio is the moment on Christmas eve that Christmas begins for me.

It took me way too long to get this 😂

Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Silent Night
Hark The Herald Angels

I love them all TBH, and excited for carols at church on Christmas Eve night!

O holy night

Can It Be True? is my favourite modern carol.

Good Kind Wenceslas is my favourite traditional carol.

To all those saying o holy night can I ask why its your favorite. As every year it wins the classic fm nations favorite Carol to point its beyond a joke when there are so many other beautiful carols out there. Personally I find its very slow and dull.

My favs - any of john rutters and the calypso Carol. Lively and a bit of fun.

Zwellers

I don't listen to classic FM but I used to sing in the school festival choir and was quite involved in the music department and o holy night was my favourite one to sing. I'm also fairly churchy and don't necessarily need every carol to be happy clappy. I quite like having a more reverent counterpoint to the jollier carols