Haydn Les Saisons

Orchestre de chambre de Paris - Accentus - Douglas Boyd

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Participatory Concert

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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

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Duration: about 2h54 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

Joseph Haydn

Les Saisons

Printemps - Ete

Intermission

Automne - Hiver

Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Accentus

Douglas Boyd , conducting

Mari Eriksmoen , soprano

Toby Spence , tenor

Daniel Schmutzhard , baritone

Frank Markowitsch , choirmaster

Haydn’s oratorio, composed in 1801 on a scenario by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, moves through the seasons from spring to winter, alternating between episodes in a popular or pastoral style and grand, majestic choral scenes: dawn, a storm, the hunt, the harvest. But there are also melancholic moments of prayer or dejection, as well as monumental fugues like the one that closes “Winter,” and passages that seem to predict the audacity of Romanticism, like the sound painting of the thick fog…