Peter Benoit - Oratorios

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Just issued:

An exciting 5CD Box, entitled "Heaven and Hell" from the Fuga Libera label, featuring Benoits sacred oratorios, recorded by the Anbtwerp Symphony between 2015 and 2023 - including the long-awaited "Lucifer" and "De oorlog"!
We get a rather dull looking 82-page booklet with interesting essays, but no sung texts/translations.

The same program (except "Lucifer" and "De Oorlog") by the same forces had already been issued in 2018, in a lavish 2CD edition by the label "Antwerp Symphony Orchestra" under the title "Peter Benoit: Religious tetralogy".
Here we get a splendid 80-page booklet with sung texts/translations! This item has become very hard-to-find.

As far as Benoit's "De Schelde" is concerned, there is an excellent CD recordings by the label "Belgian Boutique", conducted by Martyn Brabbins - who also conducts "Hoogmis" (The Great Mass) and "Te Deum" in the above mentioned box set.