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 CD containing each choir part is available. The CD 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.
Schubert’s last great mass is full of varied dramatic gestures and fervent expression: because of some essential omissions of text, it was described by some contemporaries as “unsuitable for liturgical use”. Not only is Schubert’s proverbial “heavenly length” a real challenge, but the range of expression ranging from heartfelt passages full of “pure sound” and powerful choral fugues present some difficulties for the choral singer.
