Practice Aids

Practice Aids

Innovative practice aids from Carus, available as mp3 download or CD (Carus Choir Coach) or app (carus music), offer ideal support and help choral singers to quickly learn new repertoire: they contain first class recordings with the individual voice part amplified, making learning by listening much easier. In addition pieces can be practiced at slower tempo, permitting effective work on complicated passages. carus music, the choir app, also offers a well laid-out music text from Carus vocal scores with a marker feature in the software enabling users to follow the music. With Vocal scores XL we are offering major choral works in reader-friendly large print. Vocal scores XL will help all choral singers who find reading small-sized notes and text strenuous, and will contribute to relaxed singing.

Mendelssohn’s setting of the liturgical sequence Lauda Sion is relatively unknown. This is partly because it was written at the same time as Elijah, and partly because he never conducted it himself, and it was only published after his early death....

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Dvorák composed his Mass in D as a commissioned work for the consecration of a chapel. So the first version was simply for chorus, soloists and organ – an orchestra probably would not have fitted into the space. The full attention is therefore on...

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Of the Vespers and vesper psalms which Mozart composed for Salzburg Cathedral, the vesper sections Dixit et Magnificat are the earliest. They belong to the genre of representative church art as cultivated at all the leading courts in the 18th...

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Schubert did not have it easy with the Mass in A flat major, a work which he revisited again and again over a long period. He responded to the obvious challenge of combining artistic aspirations with liturgical functionality by employing a concise...

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Saul is one of the most dramatic of Handel’s oratorios. Unlike some of his other oratorios, its thrilling drama reveals a close affinity to opera of the time. The chorus is used for the first time as a central component of a dramatic plot, but...

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In this early work, written in 1822 when the composer was just 13 years old, we can already recognize his characteristic style. At the same time he makes references to the same work by his lifelong role-model, J. S. Bach. In the first and last...

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Psalm texts inspired Mendelssohn throughout his life, and as well as unaccompanied pieces, he wrote five major orchestral psalm settings. Their new kind of form, somewhere between that of a Bach cantata and the oratorios of Handel, became highly...

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Handel's "Israel in Egypt" is not only a large-scale oratorio, but in particular, the chorus has a major part to sing, and the soloists less so. The carus music version contains all three parts of the oratorio. In the first part, which can also be...

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The Christmas story op. 10 by Hugo Distler is, in its touching tenderness, one of the most beautiful temptations for any a cappella ensemble in Advent or Christmas time. All the solo parts can easily be sung by members of the choir. Distler...

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Cherubini’s Requiem was composed for the church memorial ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. The work contains some special features which traditionalist clerics of the time objected to, such as the scoring for mixed chorus and...

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