Beethoven’s Ninth was hotly debated amongst listeners and music critics at first. But his setting of Schiller’s "Ode to Joy" in the final movement is now sung by classical music fans and many others as a matter of course. However, the catchy theme is deceptive, and the choral writing is in fact much more difficult than it looks. Dizzy heights and frequent contrasting tempo changes demand absolutely everything from the choral singer: here, every detail has to work, for this movement is ultimately the crowning conclusion of the 70-minute symphony.
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: Renate Behle (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Glenn
Winslade (tenore), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (basso) – Rundfunkchor Berlin,
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg – Michael Gielen
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, english translationhtml file, Singing text, english translation (Sample)(Oh friends, not these tones!
Rather, let us strike up more pleasant
and joyful ones!)Ode to Joy
Friedrich Schiller
Translation: John Sullivan DwightJoy, thou brightest heaven-lit spark,
daughter from the Elysian choir
on thy holy ground we walk,
reeling with ecstatic fire.
Thou canst bind in one again
all that custom tears apart;
all mankind are brothers, when
waves thy soft wing o’er the heart.Who the happy lot doth share,
friend to have, and friend to be –
who a lovely wife holds dear –
mingle in our Jubilee!
Yea – who calls one soul his own,
one on all earth’s ample round: –...
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)
(O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern lasst uns angenehmere
anstimmen und freudenvollere!)An die Freude
Friedrich Schiller
Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
was die Mode streng geteilt;
alle Menschen werden Brüder,
wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.Wem der große Wurf gelungen,
eines Freundes Freund zu sein,
wer ein holdes Weib errungen,
mische seinen Jubel ein!
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele
sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!
Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle...
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Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
| 1770-1827Ludwig van Beethoven was without doubt one of the most influential composers in the history of music. His works formed the culmination of many genres – particularly instrumental – of Viennese classicism, and laid the foundation for the following decades. But Beethoven’s vocal works set standards too: the late Missa Solemnis is one of the most impressive choral works of its time; but his earlier Mass in C also opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical text, and set the benchmark for the further development in the composition of the mass. And with the final chorus of the Ninth Symphony, the setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy, Beethoven created one of the most frequently-performed and best known choral pieces of all, writing a timeless musical memorial to himself. Personal details
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Songwriter / Librettist
Friedrich Schiller
| 1759-1805
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Choir
Rundfunkchor Berlin
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Ensemble
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und FreiburgBaden-Baden und Freiburg
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Conductor
Michael Gielen
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Soloist - soprano
Renate Behle
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Soloist - alto
Yvonne Naef
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Soloist - tenor
Glenn Winslade
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Soloist - bass
Hanno Müller-Brachmann
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