Benoit / Royal Flemish Philharmonic / Brabbins - De Schelde [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging USA import

Royal Flemish Philha

Benoit / Royal Flemish Philharmonic / Brabbins - De Schelde [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging

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Title: De Schelde

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2015

Label: Royal Flemish Philha

UPC: 608917760125

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. Benoit: de Schelde

A Dutch-language oratorio from one of the pioneers of the Flemish musicscene! Peter Benoit was a rarity in the predominantly French-speaking culturallandscape of Belgium, and a Dutch-language oratorio about the ScheldtRiver was of huge symbolic value. Depicting the river as a lifeline reflectedthe radical optimism of Benoit's cultural policy. He had chosen the subjectwell: few other European rivers had so often been the subject of cross-borderconflicts, treaties, lawsuits, sieges, blockades, and battles as the Scheldt. Forthe libretto, Benoit collaborated with writer Emanuel Hiel, who had previouslyprovided the libretto for Lucifer. Together they created a complex scenario,moving away from the narrative oratorio tradition, in which the river is usedto depict a journey through national consciousness.