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Haydn - Die Schopfung | TDK DVWWCOCREA

Haydn - Die Schopfung

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Label: TDK

Cat No: DVWWCOCREA

Barcode: 0824121002152

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 26th February 2007

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Contents

Artists

Arleen Augér
Gabriele Sima
Peter Schreier
Walter Berry
Roland Hermann
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Collegium Aureum

Conductor

Gustav Kuhn

Artists

Arleen Augér
Gabriele Sima
Peter Schreier
Walter Berry
Roland Hermann
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Collegium Aureum

Conductor

Gustav Kuhn

About

TDK presents Joseph Haydn’s famous oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation) in a recording that paid tribute not only to the composer but also to the importance of historical performance practice. 
 
The performance on this DVD was the high point of a festival organized by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. This recording was filmed on 31st of March – Haydn’s birthday – in the Great Hall of the Old University.
 
The venue is notable, as it was here, on 27th March 1808, that Haydn himself attended a gala performance of his already hugely popular Schöpfung under the direction of Antonio Salieri. At almost seventy-six, Haydn was carried to the hall in a sedan chair before an audience that included Ludwig van Beethoven. It was to be his last ever appearance at a public concert.
 
This gala performance uses a reduced chorus of thirty-eight singers and an orchestra of more or less the same size and instruments of the kind that were customary in Haydn’s day, achieving a much darker and mellower string sound, and a sympathetic blend of the wind instruments’ characteristic colours and registers. The woodwinds in particular are frequently used by Haydn for onomatopoeic effect, but the brass and even the lower strings are similarly employed. 
 
Austrian Television introduced the live broadcast of the concert with an introductory programme on Haydn’s position in the musical life of the times, the tremendous success of The Creation and on the work and its historical background. This programme is featured as bonus on this DVD.
 
Alte Universität Wien, 1982
 
Picture Format: 4:3, 1 DVD
Sound Format: LPCM stereo
Running Time:  114 mins
Region Code:  NTSC All
Booklet Languages: GB, F, D
Territory: Worldwide


 

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