related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt GK4 2322 2220 perc str
Christmas cycle : six carols for mixed choir and small symphony orchestra, 1976 / Marius Monnikendam
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 1111 1100 perc str
Mis ter nagedachtenis aan Z.H. Paus Johannes XXIII : voor koor en orkest / Karel Goeyvaerts
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
SATB 2ob 2bsn eh 3h 2tpt
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…