Come, Tune Your Heart - rare Christmas carol

Original video description:

To my Christian friends, I thought it would be nice to upload an almost forgotten but beautiful carol I found in a recently obtained late 19th-century collection "Christmas Carols, New and Old", edited by Rev. Henry Bramley and John Stainer. More can be read about the historical significance of that collection here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ramsden_Bramley.

The music was written by Frederick Arthur Gore-Ousesley (1825-1889) and the words are an 1841 translation by Frances Elizabeth Cox (1812-1897) of a German hymn by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769). My best guess, therefore, is that the music was also written in 1841 accompanying the translation. While that places the composer as having been only 16 or so years old at the time, he was noted for his precocity, having composed an opera when he was 8. It is also plausible that the music was composed a few decades later as a new setting of the translation, but not after 1878.

I tend to get nervous when recording myself, especially when I don't have a lot of time to familiarize myself, so please bear with some unsteadiness in the performance. I wanted to get this video out before the day is over. I hope you enjoy it. If you would like to sing along, note that the last three syllables of each long line are repeated (as in the first verse). The video was made using the direct audio output of the Kawai MP11SE stage piano.

Unfortunately, after publishing this video previously, I realized that there were a bunch of strange audio artifacts (warbling etc.) introduced when I uploaded the amplified audio file to ClipChamp (the original was far too quiet). I tried many alternative methods, but oddly enough the only file that worked without the artifacts was the original. ClipChamp has an audio volume feature, but it won't go beyond 200%. So, here's an attempt to get better audio, but it is a bit too quiet. My apologies about this. I will try to get better results in the future somehow.

Happy holidays everyone and thank you as always for watching!