Vocal-choral music from Bonn on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
The program comes to us from the "Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts" series.
John Adams’ “El Nino” from the Los Angeles Philharmonic on the “Evening Concert”
The composer calls the works a Nativity-Oratorio, with both the immediate association with Christmas, and with wider metaphorical and allegorical connections via the selected texts that serve as the lyrics for the work.
Elijah
An epic oratorio based on one of the most influential prophets of the Old Testament.