This folk song has been used as the melody for several popular hymns over the years. This arrangement is opened by a solo trumpet with a sense of a lone player on the top of a hill surrounded by mist. The
After a short introduction with melodic excerpts played in various voices, a verse of this famous carol is played. This moves to a wandering descant line before the grand finale.
Trumpet Voluntary No. 1 arranged here by David Marlatt, was originally a work to show off the trumpet stop on an organ. That brilliant sound has been replaced by the real instruments in this