The Oxen (SATB Double Choir) | Marco Galvani

Sung by SANSARA on their 2019 album The Waiting Sky.
Scores can be purchased through Birdsong Publishing, part of Faber Music.
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
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Reuploading this with some corrections to the score!
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[@hawlttt7029]

This is exceptional. Congrats on a gorgeous work and performance.

[@hsterts]

One of my favorites from you 🎉 Wonderfully performed.

[@marcogalvani1706]

Thank you so much!

[@atrotossavainen8110]

Ever heard of a Finnish guy called Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963)...?