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Haydn - The Creation | Harmonia Mundi HMC90203940

Haydn - The Creation

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC90203940

Barcode: 0794881924523

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 19th October 2009

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Contents

Artists

Julia Kleiter (soprano)
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor)
Johannes Weisser (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor
Freiburg Barockorchester

Conductor

Rene Jacobs

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

The Creation (Die Schopfung), Hob.XXI:2

Artists

Julia Kleiter (soprano)
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor)
Johannes Weisser (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor
Freiburg Barockorchester

Conductor

Rene Jacobs

About

It was on a visit to London in 1791 that Haydn heard several of Handel's oratorios at Westminster Abbey. Astonished by their size and power - "Handel is master of us all", he is said to have declared - he determined to write a similar work himself. Die Schöpfung was the result, though its exuberant hymning of the simple joys of life is pure Haydn.

Cast:
- Julia Kleiter, soprano (Gabriel, Eva)
- Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Uriel)
- Johannes Weisser, bass (Raphael, Adam)

Concert Reviews:
"Julia Kleiter was the exemplary soprano, who made Jacobs's extra vocal embellishments sound completely natural, and Maximilian Schmitt gave notice of a well-schooled tenor voice to watch." - Financial Times, January 2009

"In the medium-scale acoustic of the Barbican Hall, two German groups - the 40-strong RIAS Chamber Choir and the similarly sized Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, both under the skilled hands of conductor René Jacobs - proved near ideal. Many of Haydn's delightful touches of audio-visual detail - the sun and moon, the birds and beasts - came over with unusually vivid effect...Julia Kleiter's pristine vocalism moved around the soprano part with the same delicacy and skill as Maximilian Schmitt's around the tenor's." - The Guardian

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