L’Enfance du Christ
Trilogie sacrée op. 25
Thanks to its skilled dramatization, separate instrumental sections and striking choral movements, Berlioz's trilogy L'Enfance du Christ is a rewarding alternative for Christmas music-making.
The history of the oratorio's composition is rather bizarre. The kernel of the three-part work lies in the movements from the middle section, The Flight into Egypt, which Berlioz composed on a whim in 1850 and then attributed to a fictitious Baroque composer he himself had invented. In 1854 two new sections The Dream of Herod and The Arrival in Saïs completed his “sacred trilogy”, and the celebrated premiere of L'Enfance du Christ took place that year. Berlioz drew on the Gospel of Matthew and chose a different perspective on the Christmas story, focussing on the visit of the Magi to Herod and the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt.
The score, first printed in 1855, included a German translation of Berlioz’s original text. The critical edition by Carus offers a translation by Klaus Kreuser, which is closer to the French original than the early translation.
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Composer
Hector Berlioz
| 1803-1869
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Editor
Paul Prévost
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Translator
Klaus Kreuser
| -2012
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