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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.
神曲與歌劇同樣源自意大利，曾幾何時同樣受歡迎。然而，今天歌劇的風彩已蓋過神曲，除了錄音匱乏，18及19世紀很多出色作品都不知所蹤。由四月到六月，逢星期日上午10時，冀世安神父將帶領大家走進神曲的藝術世界，一窺箇中引人入勝之處。
