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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Verzauberte Lieder : für Chor und Orchester, 1986 / Joep Straesser
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2222 2211 perc pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 (KK ad lib.) 3332 4331 timp perc str
Four on the Floor : for choir and chamber orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg sax-a h trp trb perc pf 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…