Customer Reviews for A Ceremony of Carols op. 28
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John Howard
Location: from Chebeague island, ME
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
October 26, 2012
overwhelming
Be sure you have enough voices! It splits into divisi quite a lot. For small groups, especially with limited tenors/basses, give the men a break and use the SSA.
9 of 20 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 9, 2009
stick w/ SSA
Great piece, but much better in its original treble version. Odd to have a German translation in the music.
30 of 60 people found this review helpful.
Walter Koehler
Location: from Washington DC
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
November 18, 2008
A Christmas Standard
Britten's Ceremony of Carols is among the best known choral works for Christmas, so I'm not sure what a review will tell you. I seem to recall an earlier edition where Britten said that piano accompaniment should not be substituted for the harp, but the currrent edition says otherwise. In any case, church choirs should not shy away from performing at least selected movements from this wonderful work. Parts of it are quite challenging, for both choir and harp, but other parts are not so difficult.
38 of 66 people found this review helpful.
Steve
Location: from Central Massachusetts
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
March 27, 2006
Hauntingly Beautiful w/Harp
My church choir performed this with harp accompaniment and it was wonderful. It took a lot of work to get the harmonies down pat, but the choir was SO proud of themselves it was worth every minute of long practices. Highly recommend for dedicated singers.
32 of 65 people found this review helpful.
Sarah
Location: from Cape Cod,MA
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
October 27, 2005
Choir
Im in 7th grade and my select chorus at my school is doing this....it is a challenge but I think it is really beautiful.
30 of 56 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from queensbury ny
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
October 27, 2004
challenging yet beautiful
ill make it short- pushes vocal range, and its basically about counting in the collection i recomend u perform this in a college choir or community choir
23 of 52 people found this review helpful.