page_title: Le Laudi
section_title: Performances and recordings
hierarchical_section_title: Le Laudi / Performances and recordings
caption_attribution_description: Karl Erb, 1912.
context_page_description: Le Laudi, Op. 25, is an oratorio by the Swiss composer Hermann Suter. The full title is Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi. The text is Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun in the original Italian. Suter scored the work for soloists, choir, children's choir, organ and large orchestra. It was premiered in 1924, with the composer conducting the Basler Gesangverein on the occasion of its centenary. The oratorio of around 70 minutes is one of Suter's most important works and has been championed by conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, who conducted the first performance in Vienna in 1926 and further performances in Europe. Although now performed relatively rarely elsewhere, it has been presented regularly in Switzerland. It was also recorded in 1991 and 2007.
context_section_description: The premiere of Le Laudi was on 13 June 1924 in Basel, conducted by the composer, with soloists Eva Bruhn, Maria Philippi, Karl Erb and Heinrich Rehkemper.
  It was published the same year as Opus 25 by publisher Edition Hug. The work made Suter known beyond Switzerland. Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted it on 20 January 1926 in Vienna and directed further performances in the 1920s. In 1934, Karl Straube performed it in Leipzig. It is still performed today, particularly in Switzerland, where it has a continuous performance tradition. 
  The oratorio was recorded in 1991 by  András Ligeti conducting soloists Alida Ferrarini, Vesselina Kasarova, Eduardo Villa and Marcel Rosca, organist Andras Virágh, the choir and children's choir of the Hungarian Radio, and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, for the label MGB.
  In 2006, the work was videotaped at the Coréades Festival in La Rochelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, under the musical direction of Jean-Yves Gaudin, and was broadcast the following year.
  In 2007, Theo Loosli conducted the Berner Bach-Chor and Bern Symphony Orchestra in a recording for the label Ars Musici.
  The work was first performed in the United Kingdom by Choir 2000 on 21 June 2009 at the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. Choir 2000 performed the oratorio again on 23 June 2018 in The Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, and in West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge on 24 June 2018.
caption: Karl Erb, tenor, 1912
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