Beethoven's Hallelujah Chorus for Instruments
11The Hallelujah Chorus everybody should know comes from George Fredric Handel's "Messiah," but this one is from "Christ on the Mount of Olives," and it is by Ludwig van Beethoven.
During my sophomore year of high school, when my choir director announced we were singing the Hallelujah Chorus on this particular day, I thought it was going to be the one by Handel. Then this one is the one that gets passed out to us, and I remark, "Whoops; it's the wrong Hallelujah Chorus." (The following year, at Christmas, we did go on to sing the one by Handel.)
This instrumental rehearsal track is made with my usual criteria based on a different score for reference, but with a slight difference because the original score I used for reference is for voices and organ. Thus, what you hear here is:
Alto saxophone (representing soprano part)
Tenor saxophone (representing alto part)
Glockenspiel (representing tenor part but playing at least two octaves higher due to score placement)
Baritone saxophone (representing bass part)
Vibraphone (also playing bass part one octave higher)
Piano (accompaniment, representing organ)
2 marimbas (also representing organ; one is written for grand staff and the second is playing just a bass clef because the organ was written for 3 staffs)
Original music is public domain
This remix © me and me alone