Silent Night

This introspective setting of the world’s most well-known Christmas melody was inspired by Brahms’ chorale prelude on “Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen” (“Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”). Some may be disappointed by the obscurity of the beloved melody. (Another “pretty arrangement” of…

Play it as slowly as possible while making the notes sound connected to each other (but not slower than the metronome marking), with a perfect legato, allowing for natural-sounding phrase breaks. Some tasteful rubato may be used to add a sense of longing—prolonging some dissona…