Showing posts with label Mahler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mahler. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

REALLY GOOD Mahler study help

This is the Blog Lady highly recommending one of Sally's links.  This will take you to another blog, and once you get there scroll down, down, down, and eventually you come to little sound clips you can click on.  So scroll down until you get to the parts I've listed below, and you'll get our chorus parts.  The really great thing about this is that it's very slow, which is perfect for us right now!
Click HERE to go to this blog where the parts are broken up into sections, and it goes very slowly

Scroll Down to the following headings, click on the bar beneath them and you will hear the music:
(note: on the sound bar, there is a volume control all the way to the right - make sure you slide the adjuster all the way to the right so you can hear it well)

v. Finale (8)
beginning on Pg. 4, measures 472-511

v. Finale (9)
beginning on Pg. 6, measures 512-559

v. Finale (10)
beginning on Pg. 8, measures 561-639 (chorus parts start measure 613 - this is at the 1 min 35 sec mark on the sound bar)

v. Finale (11)
beginning on Pg. 12, measures 640 - 732

Mahler Study Youtube from Mark

Message from Mark: Here is a pretty good clip from youtube that allows you to hear the piece in it's full context.
Click here for the clip: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

If you want to skip to the choral section, you should start at the
1 hour 10 minute mark of the clip.
You should note the transition to the chorus and work on nailing your note from the instrumental parts.

You can also see clips of Bernstein conducting the piece. It's really fun to watch - but does not give you the critical beginning transition.

Other Mahler Links

Sally also provided us with these links.  Mahler Sources:

(Haitink)
Click Here

(Bernstein)
Click Here

Interesting!?  This is a blog.  There are comments about this rehearsal being slow but I think that I may personally find it helpful as a practice source.  If you scroll down the post in this blog, there are segments of the music - you'll have to play the different ones to see what might be helpful to practice with.
Click Here

Mark has suggested the Mahler by the San Francisco orchestra. If you want to buy a version (Amazon: CD for $25.32, MP3 for 17.98):
 Click Here

Monday, January 24, 2011

From Sally - New ECSC Season

Greetings Fellow Choristers,

Our spring practice season starts on Jan. 26th @ 7pm. The music will cost $8, payable to ECSC.
Please find your German pronunciation guides or ask me for another copy.
Auditions will be @ 6pm on Jan.26 so please invite your singing friends. We could welcome more voices for this concert on Apr. 30th.

Keep yourself healthy, use your humidifier, drink plenty of fluids; as we will need all our pipes for this powerful piece. The cover on this music is soft paper so it may be helpful to use some type of 9x12 folder to support your pencil when making marks. This will make sense when you see the music.
Happy New singing year,
Sally

Sources: [Please ignore this section if it seems confusing]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Injd-_nf8xc (Haitink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rECVyN5D60I (Bernstein)
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/02/sunday-classics-preview-prepare.html (interesting!?)(there are comments about this rehearsal being slow but I think that I may personally find it helpful as a practice source as I have been unable to find any others).

Mark has suggested the Mahler by the San Francisco orchestra. If you want to buy a version: http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphony-No-2-Gustav/dp/B0006A9F5A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286390586&sr=8-1 (Amazon: CD for $25.32, MP3 for 17.98)
http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection/dp/B0037KR4KO/ref=tmm_other_title_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286390586&sr=8-1 (MP3 download of Resurrection only for $.89