also significant. The purple and gold are signs of wealth, although these were also colours that referred to the Church due to its wealth. The pall (black velvet) probably refers to death. Richard Greene theorized in 1960 that the song refers "to the displacement of Queen Catherine of Aragon by Anne Boleyn in the affections of King Henry VIII", because the falcon was Anne's heraldic badge. Britten setting Benjamin Britten used the text in the fifth variation of A Boy was Born (Choral Variations For Mixed Voices), Opus 3, in 1933. The text was combined with Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter". The solo version of the Christi Carol was arranged for and dedicated to John Hahessy (John Elwes). He recorded the song in 1961 with Benjamin Britten himself at the piano. The song was included in a record with a group of other Britten songs taken from a set of children's songs entitled "Friday Afternoons", also the title of the disc, which were composed for his brother who was a school teacher. Recordings of the Britten setting (or adaptations of it) include: Janet Baker recorded Britten's arrangement for high voice on her 1967 album "A Pageant of English Song: 1597-1961" with pianist Gerald Moore. Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, inspired by Baker's version, included his interpretation on his debut 1994 album, Grace. About his version Buckley said, "The 'Carol' is a fairytale about a falcon who takes the beloved of the singer to an orchard. The singer goes looking for her and arrives at a chamber where his beloved lies next to a bleeding knight and a tomb with Christ's body in it." Jeff Beck performs his (in turn) Buckley-inspired interpretation on his 2010 album, Emotion & Commotion. In the album liner notes, the English guitarist states: "When I heard Jeff Buckley's album, the simplicity and the beauty of the way he sounded amazed me." Ian Read's English neo-folk band Fire + Ice, on their 1992 album Gilded by the Sun. The Chapel choir of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge on their 2009 album, Ave Virgo. New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra on her 2009 album Winter Magic. Libera's 2011 album, The Christmas Album. "Of Kings and Angels" by Mediaeval Baebes. The Choirboys' 2005 album, The Choirboys. Voces8's 2014 album, Eventide. Other settings As World War I came to an end in 1919, Peter Warlock set the text for soprano and tenor accompanied