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A few things:

-Try not to differentiate between choral and solo singing. Healthy singing is healthy singing. Make that your focus. In my ensembles, I tell students not to be "choral singers," rather, intelligent soloists.
-Voice lessons are the best way to dramatically improve your solo voice, and therefore your "choral" voice. Your teacher will provide you with many exercises to improve your voice. Practice these daily.
-Scales are excellent to improve your technique, especially when trying to master going through your second passagio. Record yourself, assess, and redo.
-Get the following two books:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Singers-Singing-Interviews-Technique/dp/0879100257 (Insight on singing from great opera singers of the past. No, they don't talk about choral technique, but it's a great way to hear MANY different ways different singers achieve vocal beauty. Try out what you read, and decide if it works for you or not. That's the beauty of voices - every one is totally different)

http://www.amazon.com/Solutions-Singers-Tools-Performers-Teachers/dp/0195160053 (Great practical book. Once again, healthy singing is healthy singing, doesn't matter if it's choral or not. Be ready to have to look up a bunch of physiological terms. Amazing resource.)

Good luck!

You can find good ones on Amazon that are less expensive (in terms of shipping plus cost) but still good quality. This is the one I use, totally worth it. It does everything I need it to, and for once, it's lasted me more than a year (I bought it last summer, so we'll see how much longer it goes), but by comparison to the cheap three ring binders I used to have- totally worth it. Wow. Choral singing has never been so easy.

My favorite set of choral music comes in the modestly named The Best Choral Album in the World... Ever!.

I'd also throw in some fun madrigal style things like My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth.

Thought this was excellent. If you like this early sacred music I highly recommend Stile Antico's new CD The Phoenix Rising. It is pretty awesome.

Sight reading for singers involves both being able to understand what you're looking at in the score, and then after that, making your voice do what you've read. There are lots of resources/apps/games to help improve the first part -- reading notes on a score, since that is common for all musicians.

If you're interested in improving the second part -- the actual singing of the notes you're reading in the score, then my recommendation is to check out Bruce Arnold's A Fanatic's Guide to Ear Training and Sight Singing.

The bulk of the course deals with memorizing the quality of each movable-do solfege syllable (which he says can take months, maybe even years, to master). Basically, what this means is being so familiar with the quality of, for example, "la" (i.e. 6th scale degree in the major scale), that if someone were to give you any tonal center, you'd be able to sing "la" instantly without any sort of mental tricks, like finding the tonic and singing up the scale in your head. Then, the course moves on to practicing singing a string of syllables given any tonal center, like for example "mi, te, fa, la, so".

It's not easy and requires disciplined practice. Of course, to make use of this, you have to have a good enough foundation in theory to map the notes you read to the syllables. I'm still in the middle of it, but personally, it has helped my sight singing immensely.

Basso Profondo From Old Russia is pretty much the definitive basso profondo choral album. It features the legendary Vladimir Miller as soloist. Great album to sleep to or get lost in a trance.

The end of #5, but boy, you need good speakers to get the full effect of it. Hubby got me the new recording for Christmas, but who needs an SO when you have Rachmaninov...

• Modus Vetus
  
• Dandelot - for clef reading
  
• Dannhauser

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus- If anyone can point me to a bad recording they did, I'll eat my hat.

St. Olaf's Choir

Edit: Forgot the Kansas City Chorale. I'm not kidding. Their Rachmaninoff liturgical music is insanely good, which blows me away given how difficult it is for non-Russians to do well. I've never heard them do anything else, but still...