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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt GK4 0100 0100 timp 3perc pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten GK4 3343 4331 4-7perc hp org pf(cel) str
Ode to the West Wind : for choir and orchestra / Ton de Kruyf; poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK8 2222 4331 4perc cel 2hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten GK4 2222 4331 timp cemb cb
composition
Il cantico del sole di Francesco d'Assisi : choeur mixte, soprano, alto, ensemble instrumental / Alphonse Stallaert
Other authors:
Franciscus van Assisi
(Text writer/Librettist)
Stallaert, Alphonse
(Composer)
Contains:
Altissimu
Benedicite
Lu frate sole
Sora luna
Frate ventu
Sor acqua
Frate focu
Matre terra
Per lo tuo amore
Sora morte
Description:
Program note (English): (Premiere: 19-6-1981 - Eglise St. Charles de Borromé, Joinville-le-Pont - Yvonne Bonnet, Régine Rossy, Choeur Fanac, Ensemble Instrumental du Conservatoire de St. Maur, dir. Alphonse Stallaert). Franciscus (1181-1226) dictated, several hours before his death, a text. This text, 'Il cantico del sole', or, 'Cantico di frate sole', or even 'Il cantico de tutte le creature' is one of the first important texts in Italy, written in the dialect of Umbria. The composer followed the whole poem. Only an instrumental Preludio all' inferno (Prelude to hell) was inserted before the words (No. IX) 'Ka, la morte secunda non il poterà far male' (Because the second death (the hell) shall do no worse to them.' - ALPHONSE STALLAERT