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 the outset as a full-length work for concert performance. In inimitable style, Dvorák’s Requiem presents a vast emotional spectrum from religious devotion to moments of drama and agonized lamentation, all with a truly impressive depth of expression. The choir plays a central role in the work: with one exception, Dvorák features it in all 13 sections.
The Carus Choir Coach offers choir singers the unique opportunity to study and learn their own, individual choral parts within the context of the sound of the entire choir and orchestra. For every vocal range a mp3-CD or -download containing each choir part is available. The Carus Choir Coach is based on recorded interpretations by renowned artists who have performed the work from carefully prepared Carus Urtext editions. Each choir part is presented in three different versions:
- Original recording
- Coach: each part is accompanied by the piano, with the original recording sounding in the background
- Coach in slow mode: the tempo of the coach slows down to 70% of the original version – through this reduction passages can be learned more effectively
Performers: Maria Stader (Soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (Alto), Ernst Haefliger (Tenore), Kim Borg (Basso) – Czech Chorus, Prag – Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – Karel Ancerl
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- 12. Pie Jesu
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam
- Graduale: 2. Requiem aeternam
- Sequentia: 3. Dies irae
- Sequentia: 4. Tuba mirum
- Sequentia: 5. Quid sum miser
- Sequentia: 7. Confutatis
- Sequentia: 8. Lacrimosa
- Offertorium: 9. Domine Jesu Christe
- Offertorium: 10. Hostias
- 11. Sanctus
- 13. Agnus Dei
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Practice aids
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Practice aids voice part alto
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Slow mode)
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Practice aids voice part tenore
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Tenore 1)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Slow mode, Tenore 1)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Tenore 2)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Slow mode, Tenore 2)
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Practice aids voice part basso
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Basso 1)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Slow mode, Basso 1)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Basso 2)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Slow mode, Basso 2)
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Practice aids voice part soprano
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach)
- Introitus: 1. Requiem aeternam (Choir Coach, Slow mode)
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Composer
Antonín Dvorák
| 1841-1904Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), next to Smetana and Janacek the most important exponent of specifically Czech music, now ranks (also in general) as one of the most popular composers of the nineteenth century. The son of a butcher-innkeeper in the Bohemian town of Nelahozeves (Mühlhausen) near Kralup, he first became known in his homeland for his patriotic hymn "The Heirs of the White Mountain" for chorus and orchestra, op.30, that he wrote in 1872. His road out into the world was opened by a commission consisting of Johannes Brahms, Eduard Hanslick and Johann von Herbeck, that selected him for an Austrian government stipend. Brahms, who was seven years the elder, took a friendly interest in his younger colleague whose eminent talent he had recognized and had come to admire. (Brahms: "That fellow has more ideas than all of us together. Every other composer could cull main themes from what he throws away.") Brahms recommended Dvo"rák to his Berlin publisher, Simrock, who later became Dvo"rák's chief publisher though he was obstinate and at first quite difficult. International fame came to Dvo"rák as a composer and – beginning in 1884 – as conductor of his own works mainly through his sensational successes in England (he went there for lengthy sojourns a total of nine times) and in the United States (two long visits spent in teaching and composing). His success was sparked chiefly by a sacred work, his Stabat Mater that was written in 1876 (Carus 27.293/03). Right until his late period, church music was never missing from the list of his important compositions: the symphonic poems, the operas (among them "Rusalka"), the symphonies, the string quartets and other chamber music works, the oratorio "St. Ludmila" - and the Slavonic Dances op.46 and op.72. To the Stabat Mater op.58 (1876/77) mentioned above, he added the "149th Psalm" op.79 (1879/87), the Requiem op.89 (1890) (Carus 27.323) and the Te Deum op.103 (1892) (Carus 27.189). Personal details
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Choir
Czech Chorus
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Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
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Conductor
Karel Ancerl
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Soloist - soprano
Maria Stader
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Soloist - alto
Sieglinde Wagner
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Soloist - tenor
Ernst Haefliger
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Soloist - bass
Kim Borg
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