Haydn composed his first mass as a youth when he and his brother still sang as boy sopranos at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Presumably, he wrote the two ornamented solo voices for himself and his brother. With numerous short interjections the choir joins in effectively in the jubilation of the solo sopranos – if it can hear the solo voices this is useful for finding its entry notes with certainty.
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 separate Audio or MP3 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: Ann Hoyt (soprano 1), Julie Liston (soprano 2), Richard Lippold (basso) – Trinity Choir, Rebel Baroque Orchestra – J. Owen Burdick.
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Composer
Joseph Haydn
| 1732-1809As Kapellmeister to Prince Esterházy, Haydn composed numerous instrumental works and various operas, as well as making important contributions to the genre of church music, including fourteen Latin masses, of which only twelve are authentic or complete; these are complemented by motets and offertories, two important Te Deum settings, two Salve Reginas, a Stabat Mater, and the different versions of the Sieben Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze. The masses were composed continually between 1749 and 1802, except for the years 1783–1795, and therefore constitute the genre with which Haydn was occupied over the longest period of time. The six (authentic or complete) masses composed before 1782 are stylistically very different, and as well as short Missae breves there are more extended masses with rich orchestral scoring; by contrast the six so-called late masses, written from 1796 onwards, form a comparatively homogeneous group of more extensive works scored for large forces. With his two great oratorios Die Schöpfung (The Creation) (1798) and Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) (1801) Haydn established the tradition of the German oratorio for middle-class music making. Personal details
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Choir
Trinity Church Choir Zemun Beograd
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Orchestra
Rebel Baroque Orchestra
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Conductor
J. Owen Burdick
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Soloist - soprano
Ann Hoyt
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Soloist - alto
Julie Liston
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Soloist - bass
Richard Lippold