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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten GK4 2222 2200 timp perc str
3 Wordsworth songs : for mixed choir and orchestra / Bernard van den Boogaard
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
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Geschreven in het teken des kruizes : voor gemengd koor en orkestr / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
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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 00:00
Aurora 02:48
Cielo del Sole 09:01
Cielo della Luna 11:39
Heaven on Earth 13:22
Heaven of Lust 19:59
Cielo di Saturno 23:09
Heaven of Religion 24:50
Nirvana 27:35
Luce Divina 30:23
Heaven of Narcotics 35:54
Primo Mobile 38:21
Empireo 47:15
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…