Robert Schumann
Paradise and the Peri
Paradise and the Peri, in German Das Paradies und die Peri, is a secular oratorio for soloists, choir, and orchestra by Robert Schumann. Completed in 1843, the work was published as Schumann's Op.
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- Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri and its early Performances Thomas Moore in Europe, 31 May 2017
- Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 (Part One, Part Two), Robert Schumann Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Peter Ostwald, Schumann: The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius (Boston: Northeast University Press, 1985). . pp. 182–3.
- John Daverio, “Expressing The Highest Through Chorus and Orchestra”—Liner notes to the recording Das Paradies und die Peri as performed by the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantiques under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv Production 289 457 660-2, released in 1999).
- Composer
- Robert Schumann