Edinburgh International Festival: The Opening Concert
Edward Gardner conducts the SCO in Haydn's oratorio depicting the beginning of the world, The Creation, which opened this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
In his sixties, having been inspired by Handel鈥檚 own works and sourcing a libretto from the Bible and John Milton's Paradise Lost, Haydn produced his oratorio The Creation. The result was a work that depicted in wide-eyed wonder the creation of the world and Haydn鈥檚 belief in God. Its first public performance prompted one audience member to write 鈥業n my whole life I will not hear another piece of music as beautiful; and even if it had lasted three hours longer, and even if the stink and sweat-bath had been much worse, I would not have minded鈥� In short I never left a theatre more contented, and all night I dreamed of the creation of the world.鈥�
19.30
Haydn: The Creation Part 1
20.20
INTERVAL - Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K457, Maxim Emelyanychev (piano)
20.40
Haydn: The Creation Part 2
Sarah Tynan 鈥� soprano
Robert Murray - tenor
Neal Davies - bass
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Edward Gardner - conductor
National Youth Choir of Scotland
Christopher Bell - chorus Director
Presenter 鈥� Kate Molleson
Producer 鈥� Laura Metcalfe
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K457
Performer: Maxim Emelyanychev. -
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Joseph Haydn
The Creation
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Choir: National Youth Choir of Scotland. Singer: Sarah Tynan. Singer: Robert Murray. Singer: Neal Davies. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Conductor: Christopher Bell. -
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
In the Mists (no 4)
Performer: Charles Owen.- Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
- Somm New Horizons.
- 18.
Broadcast
- Mon 10 Sep 2018 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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