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.

Bach's St. John Passion is one of the most magnificent passion settings in the history of music. Four respectively diverging performances by Bach himself are documented. Bach began copying yet another differing fair copy, but it was completed...

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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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This early motet, very probably by Johann Sebastian Bach, belongs to a quite different stylistic world than its better-known sister works. It is surely a work by a young composer: here, great sonority and security of intonation is required. And...

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Saint-Saëns’ delicate-sounding Oratorio de Noël, in the tradition of the Catholic rite, offers a few lyrical, expressive movements in which the chorus has a dialog with one or more of the soloists. A few sudden tempo changes also demand confident...

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Monteverdi’s Vespers 1610 is now one of those pieces – like Handel’s Messiah or Bach’s Passions – which every choral singer wants to sing at some point. But reading the music notation alone is a challenge for choral singers more familiar with 18th...

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Characterized by gripping drama and at the same time by an intimacy of trust in God, something which was no longer a matter of course even in Mendelssohn’s lifetime, this oratorio offers a wealth of musical means of expression, ranging from total...

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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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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 chorus...

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Mendelssohn described his 1840 work as “a symphony for chorus and orchestra”. The development from darkness to light forms the most important poetic image in it. In several numbers the biblical message is initially expounded by a soloist, then...

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Schubert’s last great mass is full of varied dramatic gestures and fervent expression: because of some essential omissions of text, it was described by some contemporaries as “unsuitable for liturgical use”. Not only is Schubert’s proverbial...

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