Angels We Have Heard on High

Here is a piece, consisting of two variations for manuals only, that could be played very effectively on the piano as well. (If you do, please don’t muddy it with the damper pedal!)

Choose a tempo at the beginning that will not be too fast for the second variation. In the first variation, be careful to “pass off” the middle voice from hand to hand with absolute precision, neither holding one hand’s last note into the other hand’s next note, nor breaking betw…