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. |
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. |
In her youth Queen Victoria listened with rapture to the impressive and glorious music of the great oratorios rendered in the Minster. |
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. |
I know that I cannot learn two oratorios in three months while also preparing a recital, because I am not an organized person. |
He was also influential in introducing Handel's oratorios to the Boston public. |