Oratorio Martyres Act 1 LIVE(LIVE) - Album by Original cast of oratorio Martyres - Apple Music
Apple Music에서 감상하는 오라토리오 마르티레스 오리지널 캐스트의 오라토리오 마르티레스 세계
앨범 · 2023년 · 12곡
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Oratorio Martyres Act 1 LIVE(LIVE) - Album by Original cast of oratorio Martyres | Spotify
Oratorio Martyres Act 1 LIVE(LIVE)
Original cast of oratorio Martyres · Album · 2023 · 12 songs
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Martyres in the Oratorio Martyres means martyrs in Latin.
oratorio Martyres begins with the overture "Per aspera ad astra" - "Beyond suffering to the stars" - and consists of 23 songs. It was released on two albums, Act I and Act II, and the Act II album includes two encores.
The Korean Gloria Philharmonic, with the Incheon Catholic Choir, the vocal ensemble Voce di Anima, K PAN, a traditional Korean choir, the Musica sacra Boys Choir, the oldest boys choir in Korea, and three solo singers. tenor Jihoon KIM, Baritone Byunghyuk CHOI, Baritone Sunghyun RYU One pansori(korean traditional vocal), Hyunho BAIK, three solo Korean instrumentalists, and about 150 people in total, all conducted by Dohwan KIM.
It must have taken as long to practice as it did to create. Four different choirs had to work together. The album we present to you is a live recording of the world premiere of Oratorio Martyres. Oratorio Martyres consists of three orchestral movements, five choruses with Latin lyrics, 14 choruses with Korean lyrics, and a protagonist aria; the final chorus, "Servant of God," has English lyrics.
The 12 songs in the first act span about 150 years of the religion's arrival in Korea, real people and real historical events spiral into each other. The music captures the birth of the first baptizer in Korean history, Lee Seung-hoon Peter, and the prayers and desperation of the early Christians to God amidst persecution, darkness, and trials.
The overture of Act I is a musical representation of the long period of time when history and religion first meet. Traditional Korean instruments in the orchestra convey the nervousness of the beginning. Pansori is the voice of the people in the feudal era. The first people who realized religion and wanted to get closer to God connected through song. - A Brilliant Encounter Between History and Religion-
And finally, the first baptizer is born, and time passes, and the gospel comes to the people like a shadow, like the mist of dawn, like a long-awaited letter. The final song of Act I is the impassioned Latin chorus "Rubrum Cathedralibus - Red Cathedral," an urgent call to remember the initial efforts that led to the Myeongdong Cathedral, which still stands today in Myeongdong, Seoul. Act II opens with a song about the fearful realization that the people are dying amidst persecution and trials. Some abandon religion, some become snitches, some follow religion, but they realize that they are nothing before God. Time passes, persecution continues, but the people awaken and rise up. The Helix Tempest is an orchestral portrait of turbulent times. Unlike the prayers of the early Christians, which were as breathless as night to night and day to day, in real history almost all Christians die in persecution. It leads to the great chorus, The Way of the Martyrs, which is dedicated to the period of persecution in which the most people died. The martyr's way is the way of death. But the final English-language chorus, addressed to people living in a time of religious freedom over the deaths of those 200 years ago, conveys hope, and the whole chorus unfolds.
With Oratorio Martyres, we may be artists charged with the sacred task of capturing our history in classical music. We are pleased to present to you these two beautiful albums, and we thank you again and hope that they will be enjoyed by audiences around the world. I pray that one day we will be able to bring this music to your place and perform it.
A Brilliant Encounter Between History and Religion
oratorio Martyres (world premiere 14th. sep. 2023 – album release nov. 2023)
https://youtu.be/-wVlX8Xni9k?si=zPzsFCycMzdobPN7
https://youtu.be/HoEL2u6lLP4?si=oDUrd93v1JFtUxv5
Letter from Oratorio Martyres, Tenor Jihoon KIM
Hello, Everyone! I'm opera singer and tenor, Jihoon KIM. Today I am honored to introduce you to a live album of Oratorio Martyres, which had its world premiere in Seoul in September 2023.
The album I'm going to introduce to you today is a musical portrait of the Joseon Dynasty in 1800, when Korea was a united Korea, not the divided Korea of today. It is an oratorio that tells the story of my ancestors who were martyred for their faith and the spread of Catholicism in this small, hidden kingdom in the East during the feudal Joseon Dynasty. I sang the role of Peter Lee Seung-hoon, who became the first Korean baptized Christian. You can hear my voice on several tracks on the album. The oratorio's librettist, Jae chung KIM, spent nearly a decade writing, completing the libretto for a total of 2 ACTS, 23 songs, and his most beautiful composer, Jieun LEE, spent three years composing the music for the large-scale oratorio. As an opera singer, I am proud to play the lead role in an oratorio about Korea's unique history. In the oratorio, the main characters all die. Religious death is called martyrdom, and its Latin name, MARTYRES, is the title. It wasn't the Vatican or missionaries who brought Christianity to Korea.
It was the Korean intellectuals of the time who studied Christianity as a discipline and finally realized for themselves that it was a religion. The amazing power of religion is as true now as it was then, so I am very happy to be involved in the performance and album production of Martyres, which tells the history of my country in the form of oratorio music. Precious heritage is not created overnight. Classical music, especially newly composed classical music, but also oratorio music, all of these are difficult to get public attention. We are very aware of that. So we put in more effort and sweat and collaboration and communication. Why I'm introducing you to today, our album ‘Oratorio Martyres’
why I breathe, why I feel alive as an opera singer, It's all because of the beautiful tradition of music and the nobility of being human and being able to create. We hope all the artists involved will love our album, which they created themselves with their tears and hard work. Thank you so much.
25th. SEP. 2024 Oratorio Martyres Singer Tenor Jihoon KIM
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Oratorio Martyres Act 2 LIVE (A Brilliant Encounter Between History and Religion)(LIVE)
Original cast of oratorio Martyres · Album · 2023 · 13 songs
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Apple Music에서 감상하는 오라토리오 마르티레스 오리지널 캐스트의 오라토리오 마르티레스 세계
앨범 · 2023년 · 13곡
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A Brilliant Encounter Between History and Religion
oratorio Martyres (world premiere 14th. sep. 2023 – album release nov. 2023)
Hello, Nice so meet you! I'm Jaechung KIM, CEO & Librettist who charged in Oratorio Martyres,
by korean classic music creating and producing company – Art Farm LK. Today, it is an honor to introduce our album to many music lovers also International classic music award jury around the world, together with the creators and fellow performers of Oratorio Martyres. We have been playing classical music all our life and am humbled by our life as a classical music artist. It was a pleasure to be a part of the music that was being born, the music that was making its first steps into the world. We believe in the enduring power of classical music, but we also recognize the sheer passion and sheer dedication it requires.
The oratorio's librettist, Jaechung KIM, spent nearly a decade writing the libretto. It's about real people, real historic events, and a time when Korea first encountered the West. Composer Jieun LEE devoted nearly three years to composing an oratorio, a 200-year-old piece of music of gods and men that breathes martyrdom and prayer.
Capturing our history in classical music is never done in a single moment. And it takes even more courage and effort to bring it to the stage. Our history, our ancestors, the religious voices that emerge from it, the voices of the people rising up in times of oppression, all of this is contained in the music of Oratorio Martyres.
We're thrilled that the album is filled with our own voices.
Classical music is here to stay. We will create and perform even more than we do now to make our voices heard more than ever before. The sober intellect through metaphor, the beautiful and pure messages in music, the melodies that we want to remember and not forget, the human and the divine, religion and history - these are all things we want to continue to create.
We sincerely hope that the Oratorio Martyres album will convey our sincerity and our musical breath.
Forever, music, forever! Forever, silent on the earth of music tradition and future!
Thank you so much. 20th. sep. 2024
Art Farm LK CEO & Librettist Jaechung KIM
Art Farm LK Executive Composer Jueun LEE
Conductor Dohwan KIM
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