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Oratorio De Noël
The ''Oratorio de Noël'', Op. 12, by Camille Saint-Saëns, also known as his Christmas Oratorio, is a cantata-like work scored for soloists, chorus, organ, strings and harp. While an organist at La Madeleine, Saint-Saëns wrote the Christmas oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858. The vocal score of this oratorio was prepared later by the composer and organist Eugene Gigout, a colleague of Saint-Saëns. Performing forces The work is scored for five soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), SATB mixed chorus, organ, harp, and strings in the standard five sections. The women of the chorus divide into four parts in one movement. The organ plays a significant role in the work, often playing alone, while the harp is limited to three movements. Text Saint-Saëns chose several verses from the Latin Vulgate Bible for the text of the work. "While these texts are not from a single source, it is clear that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns), Second Piano Concerto (1868), the Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns), First Cello Concerto (1872), ''Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), Danse macabre'' (1874), the opera ''Samson and Delilah (opera), Samson and Delilah'' (1877), the Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, Paris, La Madeleine, the official church of the Second French Empire, Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oratorios
An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is musical theatre, while oratorio is strictly a concert piece – though oratorios are sometimes staged as operas, and operas are sometimes presented in concert form. In an oratorio, the choir often plays a central role, and there is generally little or no interaction between the characters, and no props or elaborate costumes. A particularly important difference is in the typical subject matter of the text. Opera tends to deal with history and mythology, including age-old devices of romance, deception, and murder, whereas the plot of an oratorio often deals with sacred topics, making it appropriate for performance in the church. Protestant composers took their stories from the Bible, while Catholic composers looked to the lives of saints, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols or songs, may employ lyrics whose subject matter ranges from the nativity of Jesus Christ, to gift-giving and merrymaking, to cultural figures such as Santa Claus, among other topics. Many songs simply have a winter or seasonal theme, or have been adopted into the canon for other reasons. While most Christmas songs prior to 1930 were of a traditional religious character, the Great Depression era of the 1930s brought a stream of songs of American origin, most of which did not explicitly reference the Christian nature of the holiday, but rather the more secular traditional Western themes and customs associated with Christmas. These included songs aimed at children such as "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", as well as sentimental ballad-type songs p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Poppen
Christoph Poppen (born 9 March 1956) is a German conductor, violinist and academic teacher. Career Poppen was born in Münster. As a violinist, he was awarded first prize in the Kocian Violin Competition age 14. He studied the violin with Kurt Schäffer at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, later with Oskar Schumsky, Nathan Milstein, and Joseph Gingold.Background Information ECM 2001 In 1978, Poppen founded the , winning in 1981 at the international string quartet competition in Evian. He was the conductor of the chamber orchestra Detmolder Kammerorchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Molinelli
Roberto Molinelli (born 1963, Ancona) is an Italian composer, conductor and violist. He has graduated with honors and won prizes in national and international competitions. His CD on Carl Reinecke's chamber music was awarded with "CD of the Month" prize on "CD Classical" magazine. As a composer, arranger and conductor he has collaborated with many Artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Gustav Kuhn, Cecilia Gasdia, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Valeria Esposito, Andrea Griminelli, Valeria Moriconi, Federico Mondelci, Enrico Dindo, Elena Zaniboni, Danilo Rossi, Giorgio Zagnoni. His premières have been performed by many Orchestras worldwide (Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, La Scala Theatre, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Radio-TV Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn Bozen, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Solisti di Pavia with Enrico Dindo, Euroradio Concerts live via satellite, Symph. Orch. of Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Morath-Pusinelli
Petra Morath-Pusinelli (* 1967) is a German organist. She studied Catholic Church Music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1984 she has been an organist at the church St. Kilian, Wiesbaden, and accompanied various choirs, including the Reger-Chor from the late 1980s and the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Ralf Otto. She has been a lecturer at the University of Mainz since May 2006. In 1990, Petra Morath was the organist in John Rutter's ''Requiem'' in the version for chamber ensemble, with the Reger-Chor, Monika Fuhrmann (soprano) and instrumentalists, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer, recorded live in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden. In 2008 she played the organ part in Otto's album ''Noël: French Romantic Music for Christmas'' (2008). In November 2009 she played Duruflé's Requiem with a choir of volunteers in a memorial concert against Antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'arpa Festante
is a German chamber orchestra, specializing in the revival and performance of unknown works, especially from the Baroque music, Baroque era. It was established in Munich in 1983 by Michi Gaigg, who also led the ensemble as concertmaster until 1995. The ensemble takes its name from Giovanni Battista Maccioni's dramatic cantata (''The Festive Harp'') which was first performed in 1653, inaugurating what was to become the Bavarian State Opera. plays in varying ensembles of up to 40 players, often with choirs and soloists. Early music is played on period instruments in historically informed performances. The orchestra's focus is on revivals of less-known works of the Baroque in Southern Germany, music by members of the Bach family, and oratorios of the Baroque and Classical period (music), Classical periods. The orchestra played Bach's Mass in B minor with the Frankfurter Kantorei, conducted by Winfried Toll. They performed the work at the Cathedral of Trier with the cathedral choir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Boesch
Florian Boesch (born 17 May 1971) is an Austrian bass-baritone, voice teacher and opera singer, who is especially known as a Lieder interpreter. Life Boesch was born in Saarbrücken, West Germany, and is the son of Christian Boesch.Barbara Boisits, Georg Demcisin: Boesch, Familie. In ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon''. Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print edition: vol 1, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften press, Vienna 2002, . He took his first singing lessons from his grandmother, Kammersängerin Ruthilde Boesch, and later studied lied and oratorio at the Musikhochschule Wien with Robert Holl from 1997. He made his debut with a recital in the Vienna Musikverein. In 2002, he first appeared at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. At the end of 2003, he appeared as Papageno in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'' at the Opernhaus Zürich, and subsequently sang at the Volksoper Wien, at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Bregenz Festival, the Styriarte Graz, the Staa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jörg Mammel
Hans Jörg Mammel (born in Stuttgart) is a German tenor in opera and concert. Mammel received first musical training as a member of the boys' choir Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben. After aborted legal studies, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Winfried Toll, Werner Hollweg and Ingeborg Most. After several master classes in Europe, Mammel collaborated with conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Markus Teutschbein, Marcus Creed and Philippe Herreweghe. Mammel's repertoire includes major concert works and operas including song cycles and contemporary music. He has participated in premieres of works by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Mammel sang among others the title role of Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' in Iceland. He was a guest artist at the Theater Freiburg, the Theater Koblenz and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. In 2008 Mammel performed the title role in Mozart's ''La clemenza di Tito ' (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an '' opera seria'' in two act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anke Vondung
Anke Vondung (born in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate in 1972), is a German mezzo-soprano. She was a member of the Semperoper Dresden from 2003 to 2006. Career She won third prize in the 1998 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She has sung the roles of Dorabella in ''Così fan tutte'', Octavian in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', and the title role in ''Carmen''. Vondung has sung at German State Operas such as the Semperoper in Dresden, the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Metropolitan Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet, as well as at the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals She also sings Bach's sacred music. At the 2011 Rheingau Musik Festival, she performed the ''Liebesliederwalzer'' by Brahms and ''Spanische Liebeslieder'', op. 138, by Schumann with Ruth Ziesak, Werner Güra and Konrad Jarnot at Schloss Johannisberg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Houda-Šaturová
Simona Houda-Šaturová is a Slovak classical soprano who has had an active international career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals since the early 1990s. In 2001, she was honored with a Thalia Award and in 2007 she won the Charlotte and Walter Hamel Award for outstanding vocal achievement. She has worked at many of the world's best opera houses and concert stages, singing under such conductors as Rolf Beck, Jiří Bělohlávek, Sylvain Cambreling, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christoph Eschenbach, John Fiore, Ádám Fischer, Christopher Hogwood, Manfred Honeck, Sir Neville Marriner, Tomáš Netopil, and Helmuth Rilling among others. Biography Born in Bratislava, Houda-Šaturová studied at the Bratislava Conservatory and then privately with Soňa Kresáková. She attended master classes led by Ileana Cotrubas in Vienna and in Amsterdam. She began her career as a member of the Prague Chamber Opera from 1991–1995. She was a member of the Prague State Opera (PSO) fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
