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The Heavenly City

Recordings from YouTube:
A mennyei város - Szegedi Kortárs Balett
Other Information:
Quotations from St. John’s The Divine

Oratorium for Bass-baryton, Violoncello Solo, Chamber Choir & Chamberorchestra

Composed: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes
Instrumentation: Fl (Afl-Picc), Ob.(Eh),Cl Eflat ,2Cls., Bcl, Bsn, Cor. Trp, Trb, - Timp, Perc,
Arp, 6Vls (Solo) 2 Vlas, 2 Vc, DBass

Text German by Martin Luther’s original version of St. John’s
Dedicated to Mr Stephan N. Bartelmess
Premier: 2004 COR­VEY (Ger­many) for 50th An­niversary of the Cor­vey Mu­sic­wochen

Per­formed by László Jekl (B) Csaba On­czay (Vc Colo)
Choir of „Her­forder Kantorei” the Nord­west­deutsche Phil­har­monie
Con­duc­ted by: Rudolf Wer­then

2005 Bud­apest, per­formed by: László Jekl (B) Tamás Mérey (Vc)
Cham­ber Sym­phony & Choir of Hun­garian Radio, con­duc­ted by László Tiha­nyi
2008 Szeged, per­formed by: the Con­tem­por­ary Dance Com­pany, Choir&Or­ches­tra
Ko­reo­graph Tamás Jur­an­ics, con­duc­ted by Sándor Gyüdi

Re­cord­ing by: Hun­ga­ro­ton HCD, Hun­garian Radio (life)