Tag Archives: oratorio

This fine new release includes world-premiere recordings of oratorio music from early-18th-century female Viennese composers, plus music of their contemporary Alessandro Scarlatti for context

The soprano and concert producer talks to us about her new recording of the rarely heard Biblical-themed oratorio by the Roman Baroque composer.

OSNY performed feats of strength at Carnegie Hall with its first 'Samson' in decades, with soloists including Nola Richardson and Lawrence Jones.

At almost age 150, the OSNY makes another splendid return to one of the great classics of the oratorio genre.

Heartbeat Opera and Opera Lafayette have devised a superb staged production of the baroque oratorio 'La Susana,' retelling a biblical story of sexual harassment with love, humor, seductive grace, and wonderful music.

The soloists shone both separately and in concert, as if distilling the work of the huge chorus behind them. I didn't want the penultimate piece, "O Sleep," sung by the chorus and then the soloists in counterpoint, to end.

A joyful, optimistic, brilliantly composed vision, Haydn's great oratorio jibed perfectly with Enlightenment philosophy, and went on to offer a couple of hours of comfort and relief as war darkened the start of the 19th century. Today, it continues to bring joy.

A 1960s comic jazz oratorio by composer Gerald Fried ('Star Trek', 'Roots') gets a brief new life at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.