Alle Jahre Wieder

This is a German carol written in 1837 by Johann Wilhelm Hey and set to music by Ernst Anschütz. I got the arrangement from a player of the Hayden duet concertina in Germany. It's interesting to play a simple and slow song, the phrasing and details become so important. Even just starting the tune and stopping it smoothly requires a lot of touch for a relatively new player like me.

I'm sorry about the sound -- YouTube processes and compresses it, which squashes the dynamics and adds some harsh spikes. I tried reducing the volume of the sound on my end to at least remove the spikes, but it doesn't seem to help.

I uploaded the same video to Vimeo, you can see it there: http://www.vimeo.com/1403386 -- or even download the original 640x480 20 MB video file in Quicktime MPEG-4 format: http://www.vimeo.com/download/video:84627778?e=1217298207&h=855e2f869c143...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Hayden
• duet
• concertina
• Wakker
• German
• Christmas
• carol
• hymn
• folk
• acoustic
• Jeff
• Lefferts
• JeffLeff

[janeczka]

Lovely tune, and I didn't hear any 'spikes', so that's pretty good!

But YT is so annoying, compressing videos like that!! really awkward.

[JeffLeff]

Listen at about 20 seconds in, there's a little "crackle," that's what I'm talking about. To hear it more like I played it, try searching for JeffLeff on the Vimeo website, they don't seem to add dynamic range compression like YouTube does.

[jbrowsingj]

What is this instrument called? it looks like a small accordion.

[JeffLeff]

It's a concertina, yes, very much like a small accordion. They come in several types, to learn more about my particular instrument, see my earlier "Waltz Medley" video.

[GermanDulcimer]

Hey, very nice song song. But I've got some questions. I love music and especially playing music (as you can see on my name, I have been playing mountain dulcimer for a time) and now I would like to start playing concertina.

Is it very difficult?

What kind of concertina would you recommend to start with?

What kind of concertina have you got there?

PS: Thanks for uploading this beautiful piece of music :)

[Koesl]

well done - 5*****!