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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:
GK4 str
Amsterdam cantate : voor gemengd koor en orkest, (1984/85) / Hans Kox
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra; Mixed choir and piano
Scoring:
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Verzauberte Lieder : für Chor und Orchester, 1986 / Joep Straesser
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
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composition
Paradiso : 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:
Heaven of Religion
1 To Ignition - astronauts on their way to the moon, Apollo mission 1969
10 Cielo di Saturno
11 Heaven of Religion
12 Nirvana
13 Luce Divina
14 Heaven of Narcotics
15 Primo Mobile
16 Empireo
2 Aurora - at the foot of Mount Purgatory
3 Cielo del sole
4 Cielo della luna
5 Heaven on Earth
6 A Sound from Heaven!
7 Garden of Eden
8 Heaven of Love
9 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…