Sally Thomas has a lovely performance of the Herefordshire Carol by an impressive English chorister. Below is Ralph Vaughn Williams’ setting as sung by the King’s College Choir. The carol is a meditation on how the Incarnation undoes the effects of the Fall, a fitting subject on which to meditate as we move from Advent toward Christmas.
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