The baritone Bo Skovhus brings vocal luster and interpretive insight to the songs from this monumental orchestral cycle frequently performed by a mezzo-soprano.
Karlheinz Stockhausen spent 27 years composing the seven operas, one for each day of the week, that make up his monumental Licht cycle.
That's when Annibale Carracci, a Bolognese artist considered one of the era's finest, began his monumental fresco cycle in the Farnese Gallery.
Rather like El Niño's oscillation between warm and cold in the Pacific, Morris' monumental work cycles between two temperaments -- the one irrepressibly gay (l'Allegro), the other pensive and introspective (il Penseroso).
Of course this monumental four-part cycle almost always seems relevant, for there are not many matters it doesn't explore.
His monumental Marie de' Medici cycle celebrating the lives of the queen and her husband Henry IV of France drew in turn on both Raphael and Mantegna.
In 1989 the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened permanent rooms dedicated to his monumental 10-painting cycle, "Fifty Days at Iliam," based on Alexander Pope's translation of the "Iliad".
The 77-year-old will present Kontakte, a 1960s work originally for piano, percussion and electronics, and Oktophonie, from his monumental, "cosmic" operatic cycle Licht, to which he devoted 25 years of his life from 1977.
Intricate and monumental, they wheel and turn.
