Rehearsal Files for December 2024

POULENC GLORIA

Recommended recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k3aVoY8A0I&t=589s

Rehearsal files:  https://www.novachorus.org/music-files/   

These are excellent rehearsal files with real voices - scroll down to find Poulenc Gloria (I think it’s the 11th piece).

MONTEVERDI BEATUS VIR

Recommended recording (either of these): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Xek1Pk87M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2V5j-CV_0

Rehearsal files:  https://www.choralia.net/mv11mp3/mv11mp3en.htm

OTHER WORKS:

Brahms arr. Robert Hanson Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby):  no recording or rehearsal files available.  This is an arrangement for choir of a song for voice, viola and piano, based on the melody of the carol, Joseph, dearest Joseph mine.  Recording of the original, sung by Dame Janet Baker:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CnBIXGOuqU   

Mack Wilberg The Twelve days of Christmas:  best recording (but this is rather pedestrian – I know you will give a much livelier performance of it!)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAbIQdd2tVM