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You want that fairly long number for 3 soloists, 4-part choir, a prominent and independent bass line, plus a lot of instrumental interludes/comments set for 5 players?

That is asking for a lot of compromising AND hard wear on embouchures.

Klaus

PS: Is there a common abbreviated form that I don’t see from the original full edition?

I certainly understand your liking of it!

And I have seen a video of at least part of this number in an odd setting for brasses, soprano saxophone, side drum, and bass drum. A female jazz player from San Francisco, only remembering her business name of Sax Lady, leads a band with 4 trumpets, 2 trombones, 1 sousaphone, and the said drums, one of which also plays the gong in their parades for Chinese funerals. The Sax Lady drum majors with her soprano saxophone and conducts, even plays the bass drum in at least one video.

What I remember of their Haydn playing are some choir verses. On occasion of your posting I tried finding the videos on her web site, which didn’t succeed before my attention was called for elsewhere.

One idea that might work, at least it did with Wagner’s structurally somewhat similar Da zu dir der Heiland kam, is about skipping the interludes. If your choir acquaintances know of an a capella vocal version, try getting me an electronic copy. It likely could be combined with some of the instrumental bass line, which as far as I know is considered enough of a challenge to be used for professional bass trombone auditions.

As always: No promises!

Klaus

yadent wrote:A quintet with organ--------http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/14534.html

With the organ taking the orchestral functions, this setting is much easier for the brasses. The midi sounds used in the mp3 sample are pretty low resolution, so I cannot tell whether the tuba plays the instrumental bass line all the way. But this certainly is one way to go. I guess the same organ reduction would work with the original vocal soloist and choir parts.

Klaus