Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major work by the top musicians at Harvard should provide an exciting evening, and the concert last night fulfilled this expectation. For their centennial and sesquicentennial anniversaries, respectively, the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra joined with the Radcliffe Choral Society to present Haydn's oratorio "The Creation...
Schubert: The Death of Lazarus (soloists, the NDR Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg. Arthur Winograd conducting; M-G-M). A fine first recording of Schubert's fragmentary oratorio based on the Biblical account of the dead brother of Mary and Martha. Schubert started the work in 1820 when he was 23, abandoned it after barely starting Part II to work on The Magic Harp. Schubert's hushed, haunting melancholy shimmers in this moving performance, illuminated by the powerful NDR Chorus and the rich singing of Soprano Barbara Troxell fas Mary...
...voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words of Schoenberg's Moses...
Elgar might have remained an obscure provincial composer if he had not been encouraged by his wife, a general's daughter. At 43 he won fame at last with his thunderous oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. As Edwardian England wandered toward World War I, his reputation rose on a great wave of public nostalgia...
...Messiah (Mon. 10:05 p.m., ABC). Handel's oratorio, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Narrator Ronald Colman...