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Haydn - Les Saisons

Orchestre de chambre de Paris - Douglas Boyd
Recorded the December 16, 2017 (Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie)

Program

1.
Installation des musiciens
00:30
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2.
Joseph Haydn
Les saisons : 1 : Le printemps
00:30
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3.
Joseph Haydn
Les saisons : 2 : l'été
00:30
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4.
Joseph Haydn
Les saisons : 3 : l'automne
00:30
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5.
Joseph Haydn
Les saisons : 4 : l'hiver
02:16
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6.
Joseph Haydn
Les saisons : "Komm Holder Lenz", extrait du printemps
00:30
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7.
Joseph Haydn
Les saisons : n° 26 - Chor, extrait de l'automne
00:30
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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…

Distribution

Douglas Boyd
Mari Eriksmoen
Frank Markowitsch
Daniel Schmutzhard
Toby Spence
Accentus
Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Composers - Authors

Joseph Haydn