Frozen notes

Happy new year!

I listened to this tune during the late afternoon train journey back from Norfolk, post Christmas hols. As I watched the frozen, bare flat fields pass by, and the winter scene slowly succumb to the creeping darkness of night, this tune's cold, ethereal quality seemed to match perfectly with the scene outside my window. The mood and the tone of the vocals reminded me very much of the choral music that can be heard on the radio (Radio 3 generally...) played over the festive period. Anyway, enjoy:



Talking of the radio, I very much enjoyed discovering Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata which caught my ear on Christmas eve. A very famous piece of course, and I'm sure for the classical bods amongst you this tune comes as no great revelation, but whilst I had heard snippits here and there (TV, film etc), it was only over Christmas that I listened to it properly, and in its entirety.

Again a fitting piece for the time of year I feel. I recommend listening to it from start to finish without doing anything else; don't read, don't cook, don't text, in fact, don't think, and afterwards, I promise you, you will feel calmed and revived.