| This is one of my favourite arias from one of my favourite oratorios, and a piece I have known since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. |
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| In her youth Queen Victoria listened with rapture to the impressive and glorious music of the great oratorios rendered in the Minster. |
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| He was also influential in introducing Handel's oratorios to the Boston public. |
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| I know that I cannot learn two oratorios in three months while also preparing a recital, because I am not an organized person. |
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| Born in Edinburgh, he was a violinist, conductor and teacher whose compositions included operas, oratorios, songs, concertos, chamber and orchestral works. |
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| Director Paul Gameson will conduct a 7.30 pm programme of Christmas music by Charpentier, honouring the Virgin Mary in a selection of carols, motets and dramatic oratorios. |
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| Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios. |
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| She has performed in many operas, operettas, musicals and oratorios. |
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| Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there. |
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| He also attended musical events, including oratorios, operas, and melodramas. |
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| After two commercially successful English oratorios Esther and Deborah, he was able to invest again in the South Sea Company. |
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| Handel gave up the opera business, while he enjoyed more success with his English oratorios. |
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| In these three oratorios Handel laid the foundation for the traditional use of the chorus which marks his later oratorios. |
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| Thus a tradition was created for oratorios which was to govern their future performance. |
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| The role of the chorus became increasingly important in his later oratorios. |
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| He gained considerable fame there with performances of his operas and oratorios. |
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| Two oratorios, La resurrezione and Il trionfo del tempo, were produced in a private setting for Ruspoli and Ottoboni in 1709 and 1710, respectively. |
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