Friday, December 23, 2011

Wishing You a very Happy Christmas, with three of my favourite Carols

First, the Czech carol "We will rock You", which my choir at the Liceum sang beautifully this year, and nearly reduced me to tears. Here it is sung, too artfully in my view, by the choir of New College, Oxford. It needs the simple touch. Wither's Rocking Hymn , as set by Vaughan Williams, and lastly, a Polish carol sung by a child, with male chorus, Oj Maluśki. It is concerned with clothing the little Jesus, and worrying that he is not with His Daddy in Heaven. Three students sang it to me last year, and by the end, there wasn't a dry eye between us.

Oj Maluśki is in Old Polish, and Old Highland (Górale) Polish at that, and Google Translate got nowhere with it. I am working on it.

2 comments:

Ttony said...

And a very Merry Christmas to you as well!

(Save the translation for Boxing day - it sounds a bit too much like work!)

Left-footer said...

Ttony - thanks. Maybe the New Year, even. God bless!