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jazzy_daveSince nine this morning I have playing a mixed bag of CDs from my collection - so after Joni, jazz and some improv, next up the classical style. Full playlist later tonight.
So for you folk here is winter from one of his greatest oratorios.
Joseph Haydn - Winter (The Seasons)
The Seasons (German: Die Jahreszeiten), Hob. XXI:3 is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801.
Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe.
The composition process was arduous for Haydn, in part because his health was gradually failing and partly because Haydn found van Swieten's libretto to be rather taxing. Haydn took two years to complete the work.
Like The Creation, The Seasons had a dual premiere, first for the aristocracy whose members had financed the work (Schwarzenberg palace, Vienna, 24 April 1801), then for the public (Redoutensaal, Vienna, 19 May). The oratorio was considered a clear success, but not a success comparable to that of The Creation. In the years that followed, Haydn continued to lead oratorio performances for charitable causes, but it was usually The Creation that he led, not The Seasons.
The ageing Haydn lacked the energy needed to repeat the labour of self-publication that he had undertaken for The Creation and instead assigned the new oratorio to his regular publisher at that time, Breitkopf & Härtel, who published it in 1802.
Soloists:
Hanne (Soprano) - Sibylla Rubens
Lukas (Tenor) - Andreas Karasiak
Simon (Bass) - Stephan MacLeod
Performed by Morten Schuldt-Jensen, the GewandhausKammerchor, & the Leipziger Kammerorchester.
ENJOY
Playlist so far -
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Electrelane - Power Out
Spring Heel Jack with Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker etc - Live
AMM - Newfoundland
Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples On The Moon
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain
W.A. Mozart - Violin Concertos
W.A. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9
Joseph Hadyn - The Seasons
So for you folk here is winter from one of his greatest oratorios.
Joseph Haydn - Winter (The Seasons)
The Seasons (German: Die Jahreszeiten), Hob. XXI:3 is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801.
Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe.
The composition process was arduous for Haydn, in part because his health was gradually failing and partly because Haydn found van Swieten's libretto to be rather taxing. Haydn took two years to complete the work.
Like The Creation, The Seasons had a dual premiere, first for the aristocracy whose members had financed the work (Schwarzenberg palace, Vienna, 24 April 1801), then for the public (Redoutensaal, Vienna, 19 May). The oratorio was considered a clear success, but not a success comparable to that of The Creation. In the years that followed, Haydn continued to lead oratorio performances for charitable causes, but it was usually The Creation that he led, not The Seasons.
The ageing Haydn lacked the energy needed to repeat the labour of self-publication that he had undertaken for The Creation and instead assigned the new oratorio to his regular publisher at that time, Breitkopf & Härtel, who published it in 1802.
Soloists:
Hanne (Soprano) - Sibylla Rubens
Lukas (Tenor) - Andreas Karasiak
Simon (Bass) - Stephan MacLeod
Performed by Morten Schuldt-Jensen, the GewandhausKammerchor, & the Leipziger Kammerorchester.
ENJOY
Playlist so far -
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Electrelane - Power Out
Spring Heel Jack with Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker etc - Live
AMM - Newfoundland
Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples On The Moon
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain
W.A. Mozart - Violin Concertos
W.A. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9
Joseph Hadyn - The Seasons
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