related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Des Sängers Fluch : voor koor, soli en orkest / tekst: Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar recit GK4 2222 2321 timp perc hp str
Musique concertante : pour orchestre et choeur, 1988 / Luctor Ponse
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2232 2220 6perc hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2333 4331 timp perc pf str
composition
Paradiso : Oratorio for 2 soloists, sampler, women’s choir, orchestra & multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Dante Alighieri
(Text writer/Librettist)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Contains:
- To Ignition - astronauts on their way to the moon, Apollo mission 1969
- Cielo di Saturno
- Heaven of Religion
- Nirvana
- Luce Divina
- Heaven of Narcotics
- Primo Mobile
- Empireo
- 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
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…