Dear readers,
Are you already beginning to work on Christmas repertoire with your choir? For effective rehearsal preparation outside general choir rehearsals, we recommend carus music, the choir app, as well as our new practice CDs in the Carus Choir Coach series. You can purchase all the Christmas titles in carus music at a special price with 30% discount until 31 October 2016 in the App Store or on Google Play.
Have fun discovering and practicing!
With best wishes, Carus-Verlag
CHRISTMAS
Charpentier:
Messe de Minuit
Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Christmas mass, the Messe de Minuit, is throughly in the French tradition, celebrating the joyful news of the Birth of Christ with cheerful happiness. The work is available from Carus with complete performance material.
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>> Browse through all our Christmas choral scores
>> Latest Christmas catalog
Selva morale et spirituale
Monteverdis Selva morale et spirituale from 1641 is the only church music by the mature Monteverdi which was published after almost thirty years in his position as Music Director of St. Mark's Cathedral. All pieces of the Selva are available as single editions with complete performance materials or are in preparation.
Special Christmas offer
Two new works have just been released in carus music, the choir app: Haydn's Missa Cellensis and Rheinberger's Mass in E flat. You can now try out (almost) every work with a free demo version.
Our special offer:
You can purchase all the Christmas titles in carus music at a special price with 30% discount until 31 October 2016 in the App Store or on Google Play.
>> New publications
>> All Christmas music in carus music
Mozart: Requiem K. 626
The composition of the Requiem is surrounded by anecdotes and legends. Mozart's student Franz Xaver Süßmayr completed the unfinished work after Mozart's death. Now the work is also available in the practice-CD-series Carus Choir Coach. For every vocal range two separate CDs containing each choir part are available.
BACH VOCAL
Three new Bach cantatas
Three cantatas have just been added to our Bach vocal series this month. The obbligato wind part for the cantata Ah! I see now, as I to the wedding bidden BWV 162 has been reconstructed by the famous conductor and Bach expert Masaaki Suzuki.
With the Bach vocal project we will complete the edition of the sacred vocal works of Bach by the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.
>> All new Bach cantatas
>> All Bach cantatas in the liturgical year
SURVEY
Using digital products in choral music
Have you taken part in our survey on using digital products in choral music? The survey is aimed at choral directors and is being conducted by the Professor of Musicology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. You can take part >> here
Heinrich Schütz: Complete Recording. Box I
The first Heinrich Schütz Complete Recording with the Dresdner Kammerchor under Hans-Christoph Rademann is setting new artistic and editorial standards. Now the first 8 releases of the prize-winning complete recording (Geistliche Chor-Music 1648, the Italian Madrigals and the Psalms of David) are available in a box set containing 11 CDs.
>> About the CD Box set
Another new release on our label is a recording of Louis Spohr's only Mass and the Three Psalms op. 85 with the Kammerchor Stuttgart conducted by Frieder Bernius.
>> Have a listen!
FAVORITE WORK
Toivo Kuula: Auringon noustessa / At sunrise
´Have you heard of Toivo Kuula? Until a couple of years ago his name was completely unknown to Iris Pfeiffer. Though the a-cappella-piece is a jewel of late Romantic choral music...
>> My favorite work
NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR ORGAN
Johannsen: Song of Hope
The new organ fantasia Song of Hope by Kay Johannsen, Kantor of the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart, is improvisatory in style and has a melancholy basic character.
For performance during Advent we recommend Johann Ludwig Krebs' chorale arrangement of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern for oboe d'amore (oboe) and organ.