Hi Singers, please review these links: listen and inwardly digest!
Vivaldi - Magnificat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zqoztX4u9A – all the “solo” movements are choral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJYPSSJM7k – wonderful work with soloists – sometimes not
exactly as in our edition!
Cyber-bass for individual part-work:
http://www.cyberbass.com/Major_Works/Vivaldi_A/vivaldi_magnificat.htm
Robert Ray - Gospel Magnificat
Not very good recordings – mostly amateur choirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoko8IIl3OU - this makes me laugh – it’s a bit caffeinated! Want
some choralography?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJD-gzi34V4 – not such a good choir, but a better tempo.
Biebl: Ave Maria
There are many recordings of this around, but most of them are all women, all men, or low voices vs
high ones. They’re worth listening to, but may not help with notes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG7MAGog26E – this is the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir singing
the same edition we use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQWb4I87b88 – this is the right version, but I don’t like the
balance of voices – what do you think?
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0O8X26UIU – Voces 8 – gorgeous! Though it helps to have that
acoustic!
Carol of the Stable Dog – sung by Phoenix Chamber Choir – I think Corlynn had retired by then....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3FaJIYkQQ
Mary did you know
This will not help you with learning our version, but you should hear this group, with the original
writer... Wow! Incredible tuning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaRpeMT1tjQ
This Christmastide
My favourite version – beautiful sensitive singing -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxGFKM27_8
Here’s Jessye Norman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isWViEYXM3M
and here’s our MAGNIFICAT PROGRAM, so far:
ALL : ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY solo:
Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten—Pat Hodgins, Elizabeth Oh, Harry Gray, Bernie Barrett
Gabriel’s Message Basque arr. Pettman
Ave Maria Franz Biebl —Laura Rhead, Alison Cole Genny Trigo-Gonzalez, Elizabeth Oh, Don Moir, Bernie Barrett
reading?
Magnificat Antonio Vivaldi
Magnificat
Et Exultavit
Et Misericordia Eius
Fecit Potentiam
Deposuit Potentes
Esurientes ~ Sopranos: Rachel Eaton, Pat Hodgins
Suscepit Israel
Sicut Locutus Est
Gloria Patri
(with string quartet)
~ INTERMISSION ~
ALL: DECK THE HALL
A la nanita nana solo: Genny Trigo-Gonzalez arr Ed Henderson
Mary did you know arr Schrader
Carol of the Stable Dog - solo: Laura Rhead arr Corlynn Hanney
reading
All: DE VIRGIN MARY Caribbean, arr B Coult
Gospel Magnificat Robert Ray —solo: Amy Koop
Jessye’s Carol (This Christmastide) Donald Fraser
Reading Christmas Landscape
ALL : O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL
