Haarlem Voices - "This Little Babe" Britten

[newueelnavmip]

@ almost all !!

Thank you for the oh's and ah's and all sorts of compliments!

(the tenor on the right)

[imcuteandproud14]

We are singing this song this year in chamber chior .... there are only a few voicces but i think we can hadle it :D

[yumiwright]

I've never heard this song SATB before and you guys did a wonderful job.

[00JesusFreak0]

I was put into Choir late and everyone else already knew all the songs. This was the first song we had to sing.

[esthertje12]

Jullie zijn echt goed!!

[bbbbbbbbbcMom2010]

I'm learning this right now in choir. It's my FAVORITE song in the entire book!!

[cookiesryummy11]

this song is so intense. my choir sang this a couple years ago, along with other fac ut and stabat mater. i loved it. good job btw.

[jacquidic]

The St. Georges Singers in Belfast, Northern Ireland will be singing this S.A.T.B. version at Christmas 2010. I love your version, the voices blend so well.

[Dulciethecat]

I've never heard it with men in it before, usually young boys sing it, or sometimes girls. I know Britten authorised this arrangement, and it's really well done, but still sounds a bit strange to me.

[comicqueen121]

i performed this song about a year ago and still love it

[breds151]

These guys are awesome! I love the sopranos! I sang this for a Christmas Concert and I was a 2nd Sop. I just followed and snuck through it!

[RuBy21BuBy]

I have to sing this song,,, although I have sang it twice ,but I'm goin' to sing whole the CEREMONY OF CAROLS, & I treat specially this song...

[blackoracle86]

I have sung this a couple of times. It is so often recorded with only all-girls choirs that I rarely ever hear the tenor sustained notes towards the middle canon. I love that I can actually hear it in this recording as it was always my favorite part.

[Drummer2072]

I have to sing this song in our concert. :o

[lienia79]

l'ho cantata in un coro. è una canzone spettacolare non solo per il ritrmo ma anche per le parole.

[KagerRayeBabe]

amazing! sounds like a huge choir but its not a lot of people! i love it, my choir is singing this

[everythingbright]

i've always wanted to play the harp:(

[prjsage]

This has got to be my favorite Christmas song. Yes, it is outrageously difficult and no one understands the words but it's the words that make it powerful. Kudos to this ensemble!

[ballerbscott]

this song is so damn hard to sing as a group.

[lesRhodos5]

Try doing it with 130 girls in a freezing cold church and then say its hard to sing!!

[TrailermakeEne]

i sing in the kkl the same music

it's amazing but the treeble 2 is false

[duraznostj]

Best Recording I've seen yet! Amazing!

[teaandscones25]

That was very beautiful. great Job you all! :)

[xmalx22]

my high school's top choir that im in is doing this song. my feelings toward it are a little ambiguous, though.

[lesRhodos5]

Same here...were performing it on sat the second sops keep getting lost, its a bit worrying

[jokerinke]

impressing!

[byrningdownhouse]

wow...thats great! wonderful.

[kalamoiht]

great !

[theworldlove123]

this is exactly how this is supposed to song.

magnificant job!

[kathbleep]

the sound at 1:34 was beautiful. plus, the whole thing works really well with the harp :)

[Neenie10]

Love the harp! What a great song.

[icepenguin2468]

wow harp power!

i am going to sing this, but hearing it with T&B really makes me wish we had them added in for this song

[chrisdurston]

How odd. Never heard this done with tenors and basses in there, but it sounds really good.

[musicalwatch]

This is the Britten-authorized SATB arrangement, from the 1950's.

[gigimc]

wow! this brings back so many memories of elementary school treble choir! :') we had a tough, unrelenting director but we rocked it out... odd to hear the deeper adult voices

[smebbers]

This little Babe, so few days old, Is come to rifle Satans fold; All hell doth at his presence quake, Though he himself for cold do shake; For in this weak unarme`d wise The gates of hell he will surprise. With tears he fights and wins the field, His naked breast stands for a shield; His battering shot are babish cries, His arrows looks of weeping eyes, His martial ensigns Cold and Need, And feeble flesh his warriors steed. etc Robert Southwell

[Fiddlerin]

I remember singing this song in school one day and it was very hard to sing. You did a brilliant job. Congratulations

[MelissaTicky]

I remember singing this song for a talent show with two other girls... it is a very emotionally powerful song. They did a WONDERFUL job singing this song.

[sangkongen]

excellent!!! And the sopranos at the end...well done!

[worldgymrank]

OMG That was perfect!!!!

[stevecanny55]

Absolutely PERFECT

[Moiraine20200]

I like the harp accompanist part!

[urbanislands]

my choir had to sing this tonight...pretty damn hard...knowing im the youngest but also a soprano (sp?)

[Dundeas225]

perfect

[KikiHyrule]

We're preforming this on December 1st. We've had the music for about 4/5 rehearsals and have it nailed. It's SATB arrangement, too. I'm doing alto. ;)

PRetty good randition.

[kennababe6]

I'm singing this song with my chior. Its an all girls chior. Listening to this will help.

[chrisssyholmes]

i'm singing this with my choir.

women only, and i'm an alto.

freakin canon. i gets really hard. and i'm having a hard time memorizing it.

:]

[Elodie298]

i love this! i'm singing it at christmas, i'm so terrified when it goes into three part canon, i'm a second sop and tend to get lost and start singing 1st sop, it sounds beautiful though, where are you based i would love to hear some more of your music.

[morksinaanab]

It's a hard part indeed. Good luck! we are based in Haarlem, The Netherlands. We just recorded our first christmas album; check the website beginning of december to order it! And if you happen to be in Holland during Christmas check out our Christmas concerts :)

[qwinton01]

I'm singing it to! i'm a third sop but i hate that part to, it's realy difficult!

[saakuuraa]

Wow, i love this song!!

[iwanabana]

breathtaking!

[PumpkinPia]

Amazing!

[morganka]

One of the best interpretations I've seen. It's amazing!!

[Kakkarot22]

well done my school's choir did some of the ceremony of carols for christmas concert last year and this is pretty much the only video on youtube i've found with this song being sung by all voice parts and it was done so well so i'm giving this 5 stars

[maddiemooey]

This is a beautifully sung, articulate version of the piece. Well done to everyone!