It Came Upon The Midnight Clear, Traditional Choir with lyrics, Best Version (Phil Orchestra Chorus)

Best version of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear with lyrics, performed by a traditional choir (the Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus, conducted by Robert Page). It's the most beautiful version I know of. This is the original music that was written for the song in 1850. The name of the melody is called "Carol" (by Richard Storrs Willis). In Commonwealth countries, the words are often set to a different melody known as "Noel" (by Sir Arthur Sullivan), which was adopted several decades later. The original version is still by far the most popular version in the USA. The recording heard in this video is the most beautiful version that I know of, and was first released in 1972 by RCA. Do not confuse it with an orchestral version by Eugene Ormandy from a few years earlier on a different album. That version is about 3;07 in length, and features the Philadelphia Orchestra. The version in this video is an all-choral arrangement by the Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus, directed by Robert Page, and first released in 1972. It's about 3;20 in length. It is easy to mix the two versions up though, because both albums featured Eugene Ormandy and Robert Page, and both albums featured the Philadelphia Orchestra (although only the 1972 album featured the Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus). The version in this video was also later featured on the original 1986, two-disc Christmas compilation CD, "The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas".

Note: This song is often titled "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", although the original title used "the" instead of "a". It has a total of five stanzas of lyrics, however, like many Christmas songs, it is common for some of the stanzas to be omitted, or for the lyrics to be varied or altered in some way. The third and fourth stanzas are the most commonly omitted stanzas. The version in this video does that; the third and fourth stanzas are omitted. What we hear are the first, second, and fifth stanzas.

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