A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season

EP by Loreena McKennitt

Released

November 1995

Recorded

Real World Studios (Bath, England)

Genre

Folk

Length

22:28

Label

Quinlan Road, Warner Bros.

Loreena McKennitt chronology

Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts
(1995)

A Winter Garden: Five Songs For The Season
(1995)

The Book of Secrets
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Emusic	^[2]

A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season is an EP by Loreena McKennitt. Recorded and released in 1995, it contains five tracks: three Christmas carols, McKennitt’s adaptation of Archibald Lampman’s poem “Snow” (also released on To Drive the Cold Winter Away), and the traditional English “Seeds of Love.”

All the tracks on the EP were later released on her 2008 album A Midwinter Night's Dream.

Track listing

"Coventry Carol" – 2:21
"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" – 6:49
"Good King Wenceslas" – 3:19
"Snow" – 5:04
"Seeds of Love" – 4:57

References

↑ Cater, Darryl. A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season at AllMusic
↑ Emusic review

External links

A Winter Garden on McKennitt's Web site

Loreena McKennitt

Studio albums	Elemental (1985) To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987) Parallel Dreams (1989) The Visit (1991) The Mask and Mirror (1994) The Book of Secrets (1997) An Ancient Muse (2006) A Midwinter Night's Dream (2008) The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2010)

Live albums	Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts (1995) Live in Paris and Toronto (1999) Nights from the Alhambra (2007) A Mediterranean Odyssey (2009) Troubadours On the Rhine (2012)

EPs	A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season (1995)

Compilations	The Best of Loreena McKennitt (1997) A Mummers' Dance Through Ireland (2009) The Journey So Far – The Best of Loreena McKennitt (2013)

Box sets	The Journey Begins (2008)

Videos	No Journey's End (1995) Nights from the Alhambra (2007) A Moveable Musical Feast (2008)

Singles	"The Lady of Shalott" "All Souls Night" "Courtyard Lullaby" "Greensleeves" "The Bonny Swans" "Santiago" "The Dark Night of the Soul" "The Mystic's Dream" "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" "The Mummers' Dance" "Marco Polo" "Caravanserai" "Penelope's Song" "The Seven Rejoices of Mary" "Noël Nouvelet!" "Dante's Prayer"

Related topics	Quinlan Road McKennitt v Ash

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