Par HINDEMITH PAUL. The opera is set in a variety of locations between the years 1608 and 1630 and throws a spotlight on individual scenes, sometimes presented simultaneously, from the life of the astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630); the opera takes its name from Kepler’s theoretical work ‘Harmonices mundi’. Hindemith utilises substantial historical studies as the basis for his sketches of indi…

'Le travail de Paul Hindemith est encyclopédique dans la nature. Dès le départ, il a travaillé dans tous les genres musicaux et a élaboré plusieurs de ses idées musicales et des projets non en tant qu'individu, autonomes mais comme des oeuvres des cycles de travailavec différentes relations fonctionnelles. Ces pièces contrastées se complètent mutuellement si vécue comme de la pièce de la structure…

The first performance of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” on 13 April 1742 in Dublin aroused unqualified rapture. A newspaper report a few days later declared that it combined “the Sublime, the Grand, and the Tender”. Its success has remained undiminished ever since, and the “Messiah” has taken its place in musical life.

In 2009, to mark the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death,…