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.

In 1837 Robert Schumann judged Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 Wie der Hirsch schreit (Like as the hart) as the "highest standard which has been achieved amongst recent church music". This work is truly a favorite of many choirs, however, the final...

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Goethe’s dramatic ballad The First Walpurgis Night inspired Mendelssohn to write a magnificent and vivid portrayal of the conflict between an old heathen community and the new aspirations of Christianization, between belief and superstition on...

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Dvorák’s mighty Requiem was commissioned for Birmingham’s renowned music festival. Since its premiere there in 1891 under the composer’s direction, it has enjoyed huge popularity. Although based on the liturgical Latin text, it was conceived from...

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Der Stern von Bethlehem is based on a text by Rheinberger’s wife. The composer created an impressive portrayal of the well-known story in nine movements. His masterly compositional style demands a confident, but precisely-judged choral sound,...

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When Haydn wrote the Nelson Mass ("Missa in Angustiis") in less than eight weeks in 1798, he had written no masses in the preceding 14 years, but instead, had composed numerous symphonies and chamber music works. In the Nelson Mass, which was...

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Haydn's Missa in B flat major has gone down in music history as the "Theresienmesse", even though the reason for this designation is unclear. In order to give fullest justice to this beautiful work and to be able to offer the widest possible range...

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Bach's Christmas Oratorio is undeniably the number ONE in the Christmas repertoire of choirs as well as in popularity with audiences. The Christmas story, according to the Gospels of St. Luke and St. Matthew, combined with free poetry and...

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Friede auf Erden op. 13 is regarded as Arnold Schoenberg’s last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. On the same day that he completed his op. 13, Schoenberg made the first sketches for his 2nd String...

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Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus considerably influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the revival of which he conducted in 1829. It was probably his most popular work during his lifetime. The choral movements,...

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The popular “Nicolai Mass” by Haydn is both diverse and traditional. Haydn conveys this exhilarating jubilance through numerous wide leaps, in particular sixths and octaves, that the chorister has to hear well in order to reach the high notes...

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