简介
GIST
A Season of Oratorio
Ciaran F.Kane, SJ
Sundays, 10:00am
The era of music recording is not much more than 100 years old, but it coincides with the dominance of opera over oratorio, those two genres that share Italian origin, parallel history and even certain overlaps. In the heyday of CD record shops, the ‘classical’ sections often carried rows and rows of opera titles, and browsing them was an education in itself. But even in those days the heading ‘oratorio’ (if indeed there was one) revealed much more sparse offerings.
So it’s no surprise that Radio 4 has been able for many years to provide an excellent regular programme of Sunday Opera. The opportunities to listen to oratorio, however, have been limited by, among other things, the relative dearth of recordings. Admittedly also there’s been a relative dearth of worthwhile oratorios. The flourishing of the genre in late 18th-century and 19th-century Britain and Germany in particular produced a wealth of ‘worthy’ works, but most of them disappeared without trace.
神曲与歌剧同样源自意大利，曾几何时同样受欢迎。然而，今天歌剧的风彩已盖过神曲，除了录音匮乏，18及19世纪很多出色作品都不知所踪。由四月到六月，逢星期日上午10时，冀世安神父将带领大家走进神曲的艺术世界，一窥个中引人入胜之处。
