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.

The Protestant chorale played an important role for Mendelssohn even in his early years. Inspired by Bach’s works he, too, composed cantatas on chorales, including one on the Lutheran Christmas hymn "Vom Himmel hoch" which is still well-known and...

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The Passion story by Heinrich Brockes (1680–1747), used as the basis for this work, was set several times. Handel composed his setting of the Brockes Passion 1716/17 in London. This edition is based on a copy by no less than Johann Sebastian Bach,...

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This chorale cantata was probably inspired by Mendelssohn’s performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion. Although the themes of the opening chorus are well-known from the chorale, the movement still contains many challenges: whilst the...

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The Miserere in C minor was written for women’s choir but was reworked by Hasse himself for mixed chorus. The composition comprises eight contrasting sections which include arias, soloistic ensemble movements, and choruses, expressing comfort,...

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With his Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (HWV 76) Handel revived the old tradition of a festival on St Cecilia’s Day in 1732. Called the “short” Ode to St Cecilia, the work is a joyful musical song of praise to the power of music. The choir is very...

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This Marian litany is the first of four litanies which Mozart composed in Salzburg between 1771 and 1776. Because of its simple scoring it can be assumed that it was intended for Marian devotions in the small court chapel of Schloss Mirabell....

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O praise the Lord with one consent is one of Handel’s eleven Chandos Anthems. This was the first time the composer turned to this specifically English genre of church music, similar to the Latin motet, on a larger scale. The concertante opening...

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This setting of Psalm 112 was composed by the 22-year-old George Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy. The thematic material comes in parts from an early work, a simple solo cantata with the same Latin text. Probably influenced by the...

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The 115th Psalm, Op. 31, was the first of five major psalm settings by Mendelssohn. Before publishing the work, the composer himself supplied a German translation to the original Latin (Non nobis Domine). Today this German version is the most...

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