“‘Away in a Manger’ has been one of my favorite Christmas carols ever since I was a child. I grew up with an amazing recording of it on a King’s College, Cambridge album, which was the first CD my father brought home after my family got our first CD player. This piano version is based on a choral arrangement I wrote a few years ago. It takes a slightly melancholy approach, and I like the contrast between the lower register of the piano with saturated, kind of brooding chords and that beautiful light of the original carol melody.”