| By contrast, the outer panels of the triptych are closer to the world of opera than that of oratorio. |
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| From 1786, they presented an oratorio each year, either at Lent or Christmas, for which the chorus and orchestra of the court were engaged. |
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| In parallel to her opera career, she also sang for Handel in the oratorio seasons. |
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| The sinfonia, a type of overture, does not necessarily represent the subject of the oratorio. |
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| Those of us who love Haydn adore his last large-scale work, this valedictory oratorio, to distraction. |
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| The work, which resembles an oratorio more than any other work by Messiaen, is in two parts of seven sections each. |
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| In fact, the work as a whole is more on the scale of an oratorio like Handel's Messiah than of any typical jazz recording. |
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| Opera, operetta, oratorio, and song all are represented, both in English and in the original languages. |
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| He brought stylish performance practice to the music of the baroque and classical periods, especially Handel oratorio and Mozart opera. |
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| From the first performance the oratorio was already a great success, a success which continued in later years. |
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| Zimmermann even invented a new name for the genre, which he called a lingual, a piece that blends elements of the cantata, oratorio, radio play, journalism, and feature film. |
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| She recently performed the part of Salome in A. Stradellas oratorio San Giovanni Batisda in Malm, Sweden. |
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| It will explore the excitements of Paris between the wars, through opera, ballet, concerts, oratorio, film and visual arts, and a specially commissioned book. |
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| In addition to teaching at the Toronto Conservatory, Eisdell gave song recitals, ballad and oratorio concerts and radio broadcasts. |
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| Other dramatic, but generally unstaged genres were the cantata and serenata, and the sacred equivalent of opera, oratorio, given in Lent when theatres were closed. |
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| Short choruses were an important element in the masque and Restoration stage works, and it was on this tradition that Handel built his new genre, the English oratorio. |
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| Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. |
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| This musical tradition was developed in the seventeenth century with the emergence of opera, oratorio, and cantata and their attendant forms of aria, recitative, and chorale. |
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| Several years ago-it must be almost a decade-we came here to do a documentary on the Victor Davies oratorio that the Fast family had commissioned to commemorate their mother's life. |
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| One such work was his seven-movement oratorio, Song of the Forest, a piece that celebrated the forestation of the Russian Steppes after the second world war. |
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| Canon 766 of the Codex Iuris Canonici establishes the conditions under which competent authority may admit the non-ordained faithful to preach in ecclesia vel oratorio. |
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| A welcome addition to the music scene in Toronto, he made a distinct impression on Canadian music lovers through his performances of oratorio and song. |
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| In a career that spanned four decades, she sang 43 different roles in 40 operas, and was also highly acclaimed for her oratorio and recital performances. |
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| An established concert soloist, Lesley-Jane Rogers specialises in oratorio, solo cantatas, recitals and contemporary music, and has a vast repertoire of several hundred works. |
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| I'm writing an opera with Didier Van Cauwelaert, and I've started another with Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and I'm composing an oratorio for voice and orchestra, which was commissioned by Nathalie Dessay. |
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| As for Mendelssohn's oratorio St Paul, Heine did not want to find fault with its Christianness because its composer was by birth a Jew. |
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| The opening Sinfony is composed in E minor for strings, and is Handel's first use in oratorio of the French overture form. |
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| There was a royal performance of Messiah in 1743, which was a success and began a tradition of Lenten oratorio performances. |
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| The symphony, concerto, sonata, opera, and oratorio have their origins in Italy. |
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| One could describe this lyricism of the monstrous life and of the fantastic beauty of the unknowable as some sort of chromosomic oratorio. |
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| His busy schedule includes many of the tenor roles in oratorio and has appeared recently with Katarina Karneus, Christopher Maltman and the renowned Baritone, Peter Glossop. |
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| McEwan has also written a number of produced screenplays, a stage play, children's fiction, an oratorio and a libretto titled For You with music composed by Michael Berkeley. |
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| The extended, characteristic trumpet tune that precedes and accompanies the voice is the only significant instrumental solo in the entire oratorio. |
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| In 1735 Handel received the text for a new oratorio named Saul from its librettist Charles Jennens, a wealthy landowner with musical and literary interests. |
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| Opera as a staged musical drama began to differentiate itself from earlier musical and dramatic forms, and vocal forms like the cantata and oratorio became more common. |
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| Sullivan's last major work of the 1860s was a short oratorio, The Prodigal Son, premiered in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1869 Three Choirs Festival to much praise. |
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| Oratorio and castrati neatly filled the gap, with songs that were almost indistinguishable from opera. |
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| The consort will be performing excerpts from JS Bach's Christmas Oratorio with organ, trumpets and timpani. |
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| But Jamie Spencer urged Oratorio along the rails and edged in front as the three horses drove for the line. |
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| It quickly became so well known that Handel quoted it in his Occasional Oratorio in the following year. |
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| Next came Deborah, strongly coloured by the Coronation Anthems and Athaliah, his first English Oratorio. |
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