O little town of Bethlehem | Berliner Blockflöten Orchester

[@susannabonke8552]

I love this one

[@RobertoMartinez-kv5tp]

👍✔Maravilloso

[@davidwray9050]

Ethereal and evocative of the season. Beautiful. Thank you. 😊😊😊

[@rosemarie2456]

Beautiful arrangement with the tune that is most familiar in England. I grew up in Canada singing the other tune, but I love this one also. Merry Christmas/ Frohe Weihnachten!

[@BBOrchester]

Thanks for listening and Merry Christmas to you!

[@gerhardflink5599]

❤Dank, wunderbar vorgetragen. Liebe Grüße aus Castrop-Rauxel. Gerd 👏

[@BBOrchester]

Herzlichen Dank!

[@jasperkok8745]

Wow! ❤ Sorry for commenting in English rather than German, but I really liked this version. To me, the descant part in the last verse was slightly unusual for a purely instrumental piece/version, but obviously it’s very common in the English choral tradition.

[@michaelgee9268]

I love this carol but I can't sing along to this arrangement. 🙁

[@kevinm.pfeiffer5037]

'Based on an 1868 text written by Phillips Brooks, the carol is popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but to different tunes: in the United States and Canada, to "St. Louis" by Brooks' collaborator, Lewis Redner; and in the United Kingdom and Ireland to "Forest Green", a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and first published in the 1906 English Hymnal.' --- Wikipedia

[@gillchatfield3231]

Do you actually mean the arrangement, which sounds to me very close to the original harmonisation of the tune. Or are you saying it's a tune you're not familiar with?

[@michaelgee9268]

@@gillchatfield3231 I know the tune very well, but the timing of the notes has been changed (particularly at the beginnings and ends of phrases), and some notes perhaps removed, in ways that prevent the words of the English language carol being fitted to the adjusted tune. So I can't sing the carol to this version of the music.

[@BBOrchester]

@@michaelgee9268 We play exactly this arrangement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpumqqubYr-NfpIsi=5kMvJZRvKucUQekS

[@michaelgee9268]

@@BBOrchester Thank you for that wonderful and full explanation. As you say, you play it exactly the same way as the King Singers sing it. 🙂 It works very well as a choral performance. The audience cannot join in because of all the ritardandos and pauses, unless every member of the audience was able to closely follow a conductor (zero chance). Keeping in time throughout irregular time is never a problem for BBO members or King Singers. 😀