A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season
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A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season is an EP by Loreena McKennitt
. Recorded and released in 1995, it contains five tracks: three Christmas carols, McKennitt’s adaptation of Archibald Lampman
’s poem “Snow” (also released on To Drive the Cold Winter Away
), and the traditional English “Seeds of Love.”
Loreena McKennitt
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...
. Recorded and released in 1995, it contains five tracks: three Christmas carols, McKennitt’s adaptation of Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman, was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in...
’s poem “Snow” (also released on To Drive the Cold Winter Away
To Drive the Cold Winter Away
To Drive the Cold Winter Away is Loreena McKennitt's second album, released in 1987. It pays homage to her childhood memories of music for the winter season, the most vivid of which “came from songs and carols recorded in churches or great halls, rich with their own unique ambience and...
), and the traditional English “Seeds of Love.”
Track listing
- Coventry CarolCoventry CarolThe "Coventry Carol" is a Christmas carol dating from the 16th century. The carol was performed in Coventry in England as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew...
– 2:21 - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 6:49
- Good King WenceslasGood King Wenceslas"Good King Wenceslas" is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen . During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step,...
3:19 - Snow 5:04
- Seeds of Love 4:57