oratorio

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What’s lost, during lapses like that, are the moments that inspire awe, replaced by a kind of white-knuckle anxiety in, for example, the grand chorus that closes the oratorio’s first part.

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A recent performance of “Solomon” at Carnegie Hall was a reminder of the sumptuous power of Handel’s English oratorios, his genre of concert-format, loosely plotted, often biblically inspired works that made choruses the stars.

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So Handel presented the piece in concert form — accidentally inventing the English oratorio.

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“Youth” pairs a Bach oratorio with footage of horses cantering through the snow of a Muscovite suburb.

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Now it’s time for the finest of their collaborations, the 2000 oratorio “El Niño.”

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