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Sep 28, 2011 · In seventeenth-century Italy the term ‘oratorio’ was applied to certain vocal musical works having characteristics in common but often quite different in scale and style. The fact that the word did not appear in the title of a work did not necessarily debar it from being considered a member of the genre.
- Anthony Hicks
- 1997
Messiah (HWV 56) [1][n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter [n 2] by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the ...
Oct 21, 2018 · In the 1756–58 version the introductory Funeral Anthem was omitted and instead, Handel introduced sections from various other oratorios. And thus Israel in Egypt was performed in two different forms: first of all, as an oratorio in three parts, or secondly only the actual exodus from Egypt, i.e., Parts II and III.
May 1, 2010 · Seven Handel oratorios. A selection of oratorio recordings which spans virtually Handel's whole career, from his earliest essay in the form (an Italian moral oratorio composed in Rome) to the last of the great dramatic works, and which also includes three more Old Testament settings, one in two different performances and another in unfamiliar ...
- Elizabeth Roche
- 2010
In the 1730s and 1740s Handel gradually developed an entirely unique English variant, skilfully combining elements taken from Italian opera and oratorio, the English anthem and other sources. The end result – if Handel can be said ever to have arrived at a ‘final’ version of the form – was so different from contemporary oratorio on the Continent that it has to be considered on its own.
aa consideration of Handel's oratorios, neither a purely musical nor a purely dramatic approach is sufficient; dramatic and musical struc-. tures are interdependent. Although no large-scale, systematic, analytical. studies have been made which consider the structural combination of. drama and music in Handel's oratorios, those acquainted with ...
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Feb 1, 2008 · Handel: Floridante (Archiv 477 6566, rec 2005, 164′), composed for the Royal Academy of Music's 1721–2 season, had a particularly troubled gestation. Not only was Handel having to respond to the challenge presented by the success of his fellow composer-in-residence, Giovanni Bononcini, while setting a less than satisfactory libretto by the Academy's secretary Paolo Antonio Rolli (a better ...
