Haydn - The Seasons
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD480
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 24th March 2017
Contents
Artists
Carolyn SampsonJeremy Ovenden
Andrew Foster-Williams
Gabrieli Consort & Players
National Forum of Music Choir
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra
Conductor
Paul McCreeshWorks
The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten), Hob.XXI:3Artists
Carolyn SampsonJeremy Ovenden
Andrew Foster-Williams
Gabrieli Consort & Players
National Forum of Music Choir
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra
Conductor
Paul McCreeshAbout
Reviews
Following his success with The Creation, Paul McCreesh has now recorded the last of Haydn’s great oratorios – The Seasons. And the performance matches the high standards of McCreesh’s previous grand choral projects. ... McCreesh revels in Haydn’s masterly skills... The choir’s tone is full-bodied yet never heavy... And the distinctive characters of the period instruments meet every requirement as the seasons change and the orchestral colours with them: the uproarious horns (ten of them!) for the drinking song are positively riotous. George Hall (Recording of the Month)
What emphatically sets this Seasons apart from all previous recordings, whatever the language, is the scale. As on his Gramophone Award-winning Creation (Archiv, 3/06), McCreesh replicates the forces of the public premiere, pitting a chorus of around 75 against a superb period-instrument orchestra of 100-plus. ... While the best German-language versions (with Jacobs my own favourite) are not displaced, McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a Seasons that thrillingly catches both the work’s bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime. And for sheer sonic splendour it’s in a class of its own. Richard Wigmore
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