--On 26 April 2013 16:28 +0100 Richard Dobson
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Beethoven 9th asks the choir basses to sing a "top D" and that I can
> confirm is decidedly painful at modern concert pitch. At early 19th-C
> chorton it was hopefully a bit easier. Trained good singers can
> manage it, but (without going falsetto) it still does not come
> especially recommended!

I would be surprised not to have many top Ds to sing in a normal
concert, and probably the odd D#/Eb.  E appears sometimes, and the
basses had a top F in the last concert I sang, though that is unusual.

Paul

-- 
Paul Hodges


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