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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2fl/picc 3fl/fl-a 2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb 4h 3trp 2trb tb-b 2perc cimp 2hp cel pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
ten bas GK4 2222 2220 timp perc hp str
Psalm 84 : (1954) / (vertaling van Th. Stallaert), Sem Dresden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten GK5 3333 sax-a 4331 timp perc xyl hp str
composition
Paradiso : Oratorio for 2 soloists, sampler, women’s choir, orchestra & multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Author(s):
Dante Alighieri
(Text writer/Librettist)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Contains:
- To Ignition - astronauts on their way to the moon, Apollo mission 1969
- Aurora - at the foot of Mount Purgatory
- Cielo del sole
- Cielo della luna
- Heaven on Earth
- A Sound from Heaven!
- Garden of Eden
- Heaven of Love
- Heaven of Lust
- Cielo di Saturno
- Heaven of Religion
- Nirvana
- Luce Divina
- Heaven of Narcotics
- Primo Mobile
- Empireo
Description:
In Paradiso we follow Dante and his beloved Beatrice on their journey to paradise. Paradiso is an uninterrupted ascent from heaven to heaven, heavens that represent a higher state of being for man, such as the heaven of religion, the heaven of drugs, of lust or material wealth, by means of which man may reach higher spheres or hopes to find his life's destiny, in short: tries to escape from suffering. The Earthly Paradise, the Garden of Eden and Nirvana are also visited. On their journey the couple meets, among others, the excited Apollo astronauts who visit the moon, 2 passionate television preachers, father and son Jimmy and Donnie Swaggart and drugged-out jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Finally they enter the Empireum, where thousands of angels sing eternally around the throne of God…