Haydn 2032: Die Schöpfung (complete oratorio)

 
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032: Die Schöpfung (complete oratorio)
Anna Lucia Richter; Florian Boesch; Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico; Maximilian Schmitt; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[ Alpha Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 9 October 2020

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Giovanni Antonini has been recording the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn with the Alpha label for more than five years. Now the series is enriched by another monument by the Austrian composer: Die Schöpfung (The Creation), recorded in 2019 with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and his own orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico. This great oratorio was inspired by those of Handel, which Haydn heard performed by very large forces during his visits to England. The Creation, composed between September 1796 and April 1798, demanded such a colossal effort of him that he even fell ill just after its first performance; but the work enjoyed immense success. The marriage between the Bavarian chorus, so familiar with this masterpiece, and the period-instrument musicians of Il Giardino Armonico works perfectly, with a vocal trio composed of leading soloists: Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.

GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral

"Antonini has a fine line-up of soloists, and they clearly enjoy themselves: the soprano Anna Lucia Richter and the tenor Maximilian Schmidt both have attractively light-toned voices, and Richter's discreet embellishments are unfailingly musical; while the relish with which Florian Boesch intones a bottom D for the depiction of the slithering worm gets a quiet titter of laughter from the otherwise discreet audience" BBC Music

"Joy is the essence of this new recording from Giovanni Antonini...Based on just 12 violins, his lively orchestra is on the small side. Yet I never felt short-changed…Except for a smartly paced Sunrise, Antonini and his forces never stint on the oratorio's grandeur…If Antonini can occasionally be brisk to a fault, he catches as exhilaratingly as anyone both the spirit and the letter of Haydn's unsullied vision" Gramophone

HAYDN // 'Die Schöpfung' by Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini (Official Video)