"snowy" <snowy@weather.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9E6271BCDE26Bsnowyweathernet@216.151.153.169...
> Croix de Bois, the second one with the Windsbacher Knabenchor in a modern
> setting by Vic Nees and the third one by the Bonifantes Boys' Choir from
> Pardubice, also in a kind of arrangement :-)
>
> No need to add that these two versions have not much to do with the
> original folksong that was still very well known around here until we went
> through the so called Quiet Revolution....
Thanks for taking the time to locate & upload these!
Needless to say, the PCCB version is by far my favorite. The Bonifantes BC
is certainly different, if bordering on the unrecognizable. But I am sure
there are those who prefer the "modern" arrangements and have little or no
knowledge of the folk origins...
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