Balulalow - Benjamin Britten

[yuffienp1]

I cannot wait to sing this with my choir!!!

[JackGiannini]

I've listened to this too many times in the past hour!

[DetectiveTective]

I love this song! It's so haunting, but at the same time, it's beautiful to listen to...

[TheCrazyLutenist]

this was my last christmas solo as a treble.... god I miss singing this

[dragonsoar3]

Is this the chech boys choir? It sounds a bit like them.

[MaidenofChrist16]

@MrBbminor... Because it's middle english not modern day english. This is what was spoken during the 14 and 1500's before the language was fully developed into our mondern day english... If you were to listen to this song written a generation generation, in old english, then you wouldn't have been able to understand any of it... Thank you Alfred the Great for creating the written Saxon language! If it weren't for him we would all be speaking french!

[fairbank007]

Fantastic treble solo. Wonderful piece by Britten from his Ceremony of Carols. I have sung it but, sadly never as a treble.

[bstarqueen11]

I'm so happy I get to sing the solo for my school's Christmas concert! :)

[Vampz22]

@MrBbminor It's middle English. It's really weird. The German translation is discussing singing a lullaby to baby Jesus.

[MaryMementoMori]

So beautiful <3.

[musicamaxima]

@MrBbminor Yes, late middle english sounded a lot like a modern Scotsman would pronounce our english.

[colouredtrebleclef]

the treble solo at the beginning is amazing :)

[dannypurtell]

@MrBbminor The text is by James, John and Robert Wedderburn and dates from around 1550. I'm guessing that's how they spoke then.

[verrru]

beautiful tenor solo!

[dannypurtell]

@verrru Where?

[iwanabana]

@dannypurtell Tr for tenor. treble.

[TheCrazyLutenist]

@verrru derp?

[choirboyfromhell1]

@verrru Uh.....treble solo you mean...

[VegasMissionary]

This is a wonderful recording. Thanks for sharing it!