Members´ News Page
This page contains information about rehearsals, in particular about any late changes to location and timing of rehearsals and, additionally, the dress requirements for concerts.
Winter Term 2011
All rehearsals will be at The Leys School unless otherwise stated. For your convenience a printable map to reach the school can be downloaded from here.
Rehearsal Dates for this term
| Jan | 9, 16, 23, 30 |
| Feb | 6, 20, 27 |
| Mar | 5, 12, 19, 21* |
Notes:
*....Prospective rehearsal, date and venue to be confirmed.
Lost property
A bag with some bottles of water was left at the Church in the vestry after the concert...I'm guessing it's one of our number....Drop me a line (click here) or call me on 01438 226044 and we'll sort out getting it successfully back to the correct owner.
Learning Support resources (for next term)
Haydn - The Creation;
Youtube
There are shed loads of excerpts on YouTube. Here's just a few for you to consider (not sure whether we are doing this in English or German but I found a cracking German recording and have instanced it below);
German
Version (Conductor Nikolas Harnoncourt, Orchestra - Concentus Musicus Wien,
Soloists - Dorothea Röschmann, Werner Güra and Ruben Drole, Choir - Arnold
Schoenberg Choir. Recorded live in Graz, Austria in 2010. Wonderfully clear
recording). Boring visual! Whole piece in one recording.
Also in pieces here (sadly not all sections - but more interesting
pictures):
Section 1
- Die Vorstellung des Chaos (largo)
Section 2
- Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle
Oratorium für Soli Chor und Orchester
Arie (Uriel) und Chor : Schon schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle
Section 3
- Rezitativ (Raphael): Und Gott machte das Firmament
Solo mit Chor (Gabriel): Mit Staunen sieht das Wunderwerk
Rezitativ (Raphael): Und Gott sprach: Es sammle sich das Wasser
Arie (Raphael): Rollend in schäumenden Wogen
Section 4
- Rezitativ (Gabriel): Es bringe die Erde Gras hervor
Arie (Gabriel): Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün
Rezitativ (Uriel): Und die himmlischen Heerscharen verkündigten
Chor: Stimmt an die Saiten, ergreift die Leier
Section 5
- Rezitativ (Uriel): Und Gott sprach: Es sein Lichter am Himmel
Rezitativ (Uriel): In vollem Glanze steiget jetzt die Sonne
Terzett mit Chor: Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes
Section 6
- Rezitativ (Gabriel): Und Gott sprach: Es bringe das Wasser
Arie (Gabriel): Auf starkem Fittige schwinget sich der Adler stolz
Section 7
- Rezitativ (Rapahael): Und Gott schuf große Wallfische
Rezitativ (Raphael): Und die Engel rührten ihr' unsterblich Harpfen Terzett: In
holder Anmut stehn
Section 8
- Rezitativ (Rapahael): Und Gott sprach: Es bringe die Erde hervor
Rezitativ (Raphael): Gleich öffnet sich der Erde Schoß
Arie (Raphael): Nun scheint in vollem Glanze der Himmel
Section 9
- Rezitativ (Uriel): Und Gott schuf den Menschen
Arie (Uriel): Mit Würd und Hoheit angeta
Section
10 - Rezitativ (Raphael): Und Gott sah jedes Ding
Chor: Vollendet ist das große Werk
Terzett: Zu dir, o Herr, blickt alles auf
Chor: Vollendet ist das große Werk
Section
11 - Rezitativ (Uriel): Aus Rosenwolken bricht
Duett (Adam, Eva): Von deiner Güt', o Herr
Section 12 - - Not on Youtube
Section
13 - Rezitativ (Adam): Nun ist die erste Pflicht erfüllt
Section 14 - Not on Youtube
Section
15 - Rezitativ (Uriel): O glücklich Paar, und glücklich immerfort
Chor und Soli: Singt dem Herrn alle Stimmen!
English
version - Part 1
English
version - Part 2
English
version - Part 3
(Conductor Paul McReesh, Orchestra - Gabrieli Players, Soloists - Miah Persson,
Sandrine Piau,Neal Davies, Peter Harvey and Mark Padmore , Choir - Gabrieli
Consort and Chethams Chamber Choir. Wonderfully Archiv recording) Whole piece
in 3 sections . CD is Archiv 477 7361 - review can be found here
- it has much background history about versions of the text
Choraline
This company produces instrumental versions of the piece with the appropriate
voice brought to the fore. Generally the experience of these is very good -
recording of the real instrument gives a clear stereo position and seems easier
to hear than some of the synthesized versions.They do produce practice CDs and
MP3 recordings for this piece. They can be bought from here.
Cost is approximately £11.99 (CD includes postage) or £7.99 (MP3 download).
Cyberbass
Piece is supported. The relevant page is here.
At this point I'm not sure whether Cyberbass covers all the appropriate
sections....watch this space for updates.
Home brew
Currently there'll be none produced for this piece as it will be better covered
by folks like Choraline and Cyberbass.
Learning Support resources (for the future)
Alexander L’Estrange - Zimbe :
This is a work we may do in future terms - I was able to show a
display of samples (audio and video) from this piece that was downloaded onto
my PC for display purposes only.......I had said I would make the samples
available to you to listen on your own PC. After a bit of detective work I was
able to isolate where the audio files were and I point directly to them by the
links below.....
To listen once just click on the link and the appropriate file SHOULD load in
your Web browser and play using the player which should load
automatically.....To download these samples (if you are using a windows PC and
Internet Explorer) simply do a right button mouse click on the sample you wish
to download and select "Save Target as.." from the drop down menu. Give it a
name and choose a spot on your machine to save it to.
Movement
1 - Njooni! Zimbe!
Movement 2 -
Singabahambayo thina
Movement 3 - Sansa
kroma
Movement 4 - Pete,
pete!
Movement 5 - Thula
Mama, thula
Movement 6 -
Ilanga libuya, ilanga liyaphuma
Movement 7 - Wai
bamba!
Movement 8 - Hamba
Lulu
Movement 9 -
Vamudara/Njooni! Zimbe!
Movement 10 -
Aleluya/Thuma mina
Movement 11 - We
shall not give up the fight
Movement 12 -
Siyahamba
Movement 13 -
Freedom is coming/Hamba vangeli
Movement 14 -
Njooni! Zimbe!
NOTE: This doesn't contravene copyright per se as I am pointing to the original files on the original site NOT making a local copy, additionally the author allows these excerpts to be downloaded (it states this on the sample page on the Zimbe site). All I am doing here is avoiding having to embed players onto this web page.
Elijah DVD :
For information about ordering the DVD click here.
Other Local Choir Events :
Events brought to our notice can be found by clicking here. Currently there are no other events on
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