Concerts Capella Carolina
For those who are planning to be around Heidelberg at the time: this semester, my choir's concerts will be:
We will sing Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus. Although it was written in the first half of the 19th century, it often sounds quite Baroque to my unschooled ears. Fugues, relatively limited use of dynamics (at least in comparison to last semester's Rachmaninov), fairly fixed and standard ranges for the various voices, and accidentals only in places where they make for interesting chord progressions.
Still, it probably is relatively Romantic Baroque music; at one point, the conductor, dissatisfied with our timing of a fermata, told us: "That is a Romantic fermata, not a Baroque one!" meaning it should be longer...
At any rate, it's nice music. You're all warmly recommended to come and listen: I believe these concerts are actually going to be good. There is more attention for details than last semester, since the music is simpler and easier to sing (hardly any voice divisions, and an orchestra to keep the pitch for us). And it's going to be recorded, there is going to be an actual CD, which the choir board actually intend to sell to people :).
P.S.: To UC people: sorry for the pun in the title, but I just wanted Heidelberg to have a CCC as well :p.
- on the 8th of July, in the Peterskirche, Heidelberg
- on the 15th of July, in the Eglise Abbiatale, Ebersmunster (yes, France)
We will sing Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus. Although it was written in the first half of the 19th century, it often sounds quite Baroque to my unschooled ears. Fugues, relatively limited use of dynamics (at least in comparison to last semester's Rachmaninov), fairly fixed and standard ranges for the various voices, and accidentals only in places where they make for interesting chord progressions.
Still, it probably is relatively Romantic Baroque music; at one point, the conductor, dissatisfied with our timing of a fermata, told us: "That is a Romantic fermata, not a Baroque one!" meaning it should be longer...
At any rate, it's nice music. You're all warmly recommended to come and listen: I believe these concerts are actually going to be good. There is more attention for details than last semester, since the music is simpler and easier to sing (hardly any voice divisions, and an orchestra to keep the pitch for us). And it's going to be recorded, there is going to be an actual CD, which the choir board actually intend to sell to people :).
P.S.: To UC people: sorry for the pun in the title, but I just wanted Heidelberg to have a CCC as well :p.
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