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Haydn - The Creation | Arthaus 101479

Haydn - The Creation

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Label: Arthaus

Cat No: 101479

Barcode: 0807280147995

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 1st March 2010

Contents

Artists

Wiener Philharmoniker
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Conductor

Riccardo Muti

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

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

Artists

Wiener Philharmoniker
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Conductor

Riccardo Muti

About

The Salzburg Festival summer of 1990 provided a wealth of artistic highlights. One of the very last highlights of the final weekend of the festival, however, was Riccardo Muti conducting Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation in the Grosses Festspielhaus – a matinee performance transmitted live in sound and pictures to Salzburg’s Domplatz, where the rows of seats were crammed with music lovers from all over the world.

This performance certainly brought together no ordinary ensemble of musicians, even by Salzburg Festival standards. In addition to the Vienna Philharmonic and the Chorus of the Vienna State Opera – two artist collectives that have earned virtual rights of residence at the festival since its establishment – we are treated to a line-up of soloists chosen not simply for their star quality but also for their suitability for the roles, led by the radiant soprano voice of Lucia Popp, the Mexican-born Francisco Araiza, internationally renowned American Samuel Ramey, German baritone Olaf Bär and the German mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillon.

All things considered, the recording by Austrian television that forms the basis of this DVD captures an uncommonly joyous matinee of musical entertainment – not always what one has come to expect from summer music festivals.

After the thrilling and thoroughly extraordinary interpretation, performed without interval, came the rapturous applause. It was in praise of the performers, the work – and perhaps secretly also of the depiction of a lost paradise, translated into sound in Salzburg’s Großes Festspielhaus on that Sunday morning.” - Franz Endler “Kurier”

Cast:
- Gabriel & Eva: Lucia Popp
- Uriel: Francisco Araiza
- Raphael: Samuel Ramey
- Adam: Olaf Bär
- Alto: Iris Vermillion

Live Recording from the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, 1990.

Sound Format: PCM STEREO
DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC
Picture Format: 4:3
Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, JP
FSK: 0
Running Time: 120 mins
Region Code: 0
Worldwide available

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