Chesterton's Carol

The House of Christmas comes from a set of three carols settings of poems by G.K. Chesterton. Duration: 3mins 40s. Composer's Note: G.K.C. was a great traveller and on his wanderings a friend to everyone he met. In his own house he was famed for his warmth and hospitality. It is not surprising then that The Inn was for him almost a spiritual symbol. In all of my settings of his poems I have tried to convey the sense of a yearning journey of life coupled with the joy of finding something thought lost forever: we travel to a place that if we are truthful wenever really left. The idea at the centre of The House of Christmas that I dramatise is Chesterton's: that joy is a 'gigantic secret' which resides at the end of all our travelling.

Par RUTTER JOHN. for SATB (with divisions) and organ This touching carol for choir and organ sets a tender text by G. K. Chesterton. Immaculately crafted, it has at its heart another winning melody from arguably the world's most famous living composer of carols. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / SATB [div.] et Orgue