Archive for October 28th, 2010
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
The fourth carol on our new disc ‘I Saw Three Ships’ is another enduring favourite - ‘While Shepherds Watched’. This carol was originally called ‘Winchester Old’ and appears in Este’s Psalter of 1592 but the words weren’t added until Irish poet Nahum Tate (who was poet laureate) wrote them - first making an appearance in [...]
