Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

[BIRDYBOOLA]

Beautiful

[latylia09]

this brought back some Christmas memories :)

[Elethayn]

Good! Though, my favorite arrangement is the one we use to sing around christmas time in my school. Search for "Globens Luciakonsert - det är en ros", to listen to it. I get goosebumps everytime I hear it.

Cheers:D

[carrielizpilkington]

we are singing this song in singers! lol it is a good song! :)

[realias]

I have never seen that position before, is it common in England or something? In Swedish quartets the position is always T2,B2,T1,B1 (bookend voices in the middle), I wonder why they do it different. :)

[finvoyager76]

I don't know about situation in Sweden, but here in Finland one can spot difference between male voices only group and mixed voices group :-)

[link090909]

@finvoyager76 who says male voices can't be mixed? these English types aren't limited by silly little things like gender! hahaha

[Rupnath]

It lets everyone key in to the Bass

[grupetto]

This is my favourite Christmas carol. The most beautiful song, despite I prefer the secular music of Praetorius

[vanni9283]

Can you give me an example of the secular Praetorius works that you prefer? Like a "Terpsichore" or something of that nature?

[grupetto]

"Terpsichore" of course, "Mr. Wustron Gagliarde" "War's Gagliarda"

[vanni9283]

I like "Terpsichore" too, although he used a lot of those tunes in his religious works as well.

As for myself, I enjoy both the secular and religious music of Praetorius. Although he adopted many of his musical compositions from France (Terpsichore) and Italy, the ones that he used have a nice, flowing, thick, harmonic texture that I really like.

[bamatommy]

Beautiful! I didn't know it was a German song.

[sjon0]

Old GERMAN Christmas song composed by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

[Ludendorff]

Das schönste deutsche Weinachtslied.

[guitar256]

Do you hear those German christmas songs, too?

I have always thought that outside of Germany nobody would hear those christmas songs.

[ohauss]

Huh? This specific carol might not be that well-known -though it was translated into English as "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" in 1894, but I am not sure what you mean with "those German christmas songs". Well, ok, "Silent night, holy night" is technically Austrian, but it was originally written in German language and is from the same cultural area and is one of the worldwide most well-known christmal carols.

[guitar256]

You can say if I am not right, but I think a lot of the traditional christmas carols are written in German.

I only know the German names:

"Macht hoch die tür"

"Oh Tannenbaum"

"Still, still, still"

"Ihr Kinderlein kommet"

"Lasst uns froh und Munter sein"

"Joseph, lieber Josephlein"

etc.

I'm not quiete sure if there are all German but I think so

[kingssingers]

This is from a German television appearance

[biggstone78]

I love this song

[trinagunnars]

Oh, I love this hymn!

[Kertamo]

I love it. Thanks for posting.