The Faber Music Christmas Piano Anthology (Faber Music Piano Anthology series)
£19.00£20.90 (-9%)
The Faber Music Christmas Piano Anthology is an essential collection of the greatest Christmas songs and carols, specially arranged for solo piano, for the intermediate pianist. The perfect gift for Christmas, this beautiful anthology includes favourites such as O Holy Night, Sleigh Ride and It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas alongside arrangements of Winter (from the Four Seasons), Troika (from Lieutenant Kije), and more.
Contents:
A Holly Jolly Christmas
A Marshmallow World
A Winter’s Tale
All I Want For Christmas Is You
All Through The Night
Auld Lang Syne
Away In A Manger
Bethlehem Down
Carol Of The Bells
Coventry Carol
December Prayer
December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas)
Deck The Halls
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
(Everybody’s Waitin For) The Man With The Bag
Frosty The Snowman
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Holy, Holy, Holy
I Am Blessed
I Saw Three Ships
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
In The Bleak Midwinter
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
It’s Christmas Time All Over The World
Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bells
Joy To The World
Last Christmas
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Little Donkey
Merry Xmas Everybody
Mistletoe And Wine
O Christmas Tree
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Holy Night
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Santa Baby
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
Silent Night
Sinfonia (from Christmas Oratorio)
Sleigh Ride
Stop The Cavalry
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
The First Noel
The Holly And The Ivy
The Little Drummer Boy
The Power Of Love
The Star
Troika from Lieutenant Kije
We Three Kings
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Weihnachtsbaum: Die Hirten an der Krippe (In Dulci Jubilo)
What A Wonderful World
What Child Is This?
When A Child Is Born
While Shepherds Watched
Winter (from The Four Seasons)
Winter Wonderland
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Additional information
| Publisher | Faber Music Limited (19 Oct. 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Sheet music | 192 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 057153564X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0571535644 |
| Dimensions | 23.1 x 1.9 x 30.4 cm |
by PKA
So impressed by the contents, bought a second copy for my grandson.
by Paul Riley
I bought the book as a gift for my Cousin who has recently bought herself a piano, she was classically trained but life and work caused a long lapse in playing, So now she re-learning how to play, She’s looking forward to playing all of these tunes and as she’s joined a choir she’ll be singing along as well, I can only hope to go deaf. lol
For anyone who enjoys playing the piano this book is worth the wait to receive it, it’s packed with classic and modern Christmas songs and the pleasure it gave her is worth the cost.
by João Pinto
I was impressed by the book construction quality, thick pages and front/back cover, almost like hardcover, not your usual flimsy and fragile cover. Concerning the music itself, I was also impressed by the vast selection of pieces, there are dozens of famous Christmas tunes here and nicely arranged too. The only downside is it doesn’t lay flat so easily. It’s also important to say the difficulty level it’s probably around 5th grade. All I expected and more! 🙂
by Middle Aged Buyer
This book contains a nice selection of Christmas songs, which are arranged for the intermediate player. But the book contains no lyrics!!! If I had known this, I definitely would not have bought this book. I did not understand that “solo piano” means “without lyrics”.
What does one do with a collection of Christmas songs without lyrics? Nothing! Christmas songs are not just background music; an essential part of Christmas celebration is the joy of singing together!
by João Pinto
I wish this book had been spiral bound. Difficult to keep open.
by Paul Sergeant
Brilliant for easy going Christmas songs to be learnt and played for yourself and for an audience.
by Chris Jackets
I should have taken note of more of the negative comments before taking the plunge and purchasing this and ignored the couple of piano teacher’s enthusiastic endorsements! (Did they do the arrangements??) But for inexplicable reasons the only Carol/Christmas music seemingly available is either ‘easy piano’ or a mixture of guitar and piano and this one seemed to be the only other available.
Let’s look at this Anthology objectively:
1) On the face of it, this is a lovely selection of Christmas music
2) It is at a prominently Grade 5/6 level of difficulty so has a satisfyingly ‘full’ sound to the music
3) The arrangements are, by and large, AWEFUL! Virtually every piece totally looses the theme of the music after an initial reasonably recognisable introduction and deviates into a flurry of ‘interpretations’ usually an octave higher that the introduction. Even the introductions are often laced with discord’s! What is worse is that these ‘octave high’ deviations are not written on the staves with an ‘8’ indicated above, which are easy to interpret, but are written above the standard staves making interpretation much more difficult than it needed to be.
4) Other reviewers comments regarding the weight of the paper (excellent) and the clarity of the printing (also excellent) are absolutely correct as is the thickness and inflexibility of the binding making a substantial and robust music holder essential to hold the pages open, wherever you open the book as it is very inflexible and heavy.
So, as I said in my headline: a curate’s egg. Had I had the opportunity to examine this book before purchasing, I would definitely NOT have bought it: which is a huge shame as the Anthology hold great promise, but unless you like your Christmas music ‘jazzed up’ and barely recognisable, this is a book to AVOID at all costs!
by Emma
Great book! It is quite thick, but the spine bends easily and thus stayed open even on my small piano book holder. I would say those at grade 5 standard would be able to play these songs easily enough (if they are good sight-readers), but it is not for beginners. My only issue is that lots of songs sound good in the first half and then something random seems to be going on after and the notes don’t fit rest of song? This was the case with Do they Know it’s Christmas? And All I want For Christmas Is You. Still, a nice book.