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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Icarus : a radiofonic oratorio, opus 77, Amsterdam 1-I-1963 / Lex van Delden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
recit sopr alt bar GK4 2332 2000 timp perc hp str tape electronics
II. Symphonie : Opus 30, für Chor und Orchester, 1946 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3333 4231 timp perc 2hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr GK4 2232 4331 timp perc hp pf 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…