The Creation
Joseph Haydn · International Baroque Days Melk Abbey 2018
Haydn’s oratorio opening the 2018 Baroque Days – with Anna Lucia Richter, Michael Schade, Florian Boesch and Concentus Musicus Wien under Stefan Gottfried.
“Il suono dell’universo”: Creation and the forces of nature shaped the 2018 programme of the International Baroque Days Melk Abbey, which also celebrated 40 years of the Pentecost concerts. The festival opened on 18 May 2018 in the abbey church with Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation”, one of the great musical masterpieces of the late eighteenth century.
Haydn condensed God’s work of creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, with almost childlike curiosity and sparkling imagination into a colourful tone painting that shines with timeless grace and beauty through the natural idiom of the Classical era.
The solo parts were sung by Anna Lucia Richter, Michael Schade and Florian Boesch, together with the Bachchor Salzburg and Concentus Musicus Wien. The overall artistic direction was in the hands of Stefan Gottfried, music director of Concentus Musicus Wien and a specialist in historical performance practice.
Facts
- Work
- Joseph Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung), oratorio, Hob. XXI:2
- Original title
- Die Schöpfung
- Venue and recording
- Abbey church of MelkInternational Baroque Days Melk AbbeyOpening concert, 18 May 2018
- First broadcast
- ORF III, 20 May 2018ORF 2, 21 May 2018
- Running time
- 99 min.
Credits
- Conductor
- Stefan Gottfried
- Soloists
- Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)Michael Schade (tenor)Florian Boesch (bass)
- Ensembles
- Concentus Musicus WienBachchor Salzburg (chorus master: Alois Glaßner)
- Directing concept
- Karsten Dönneweg
- TV director
- Volker Werner
- Executive producer
- Martin Pichl
- Co-production
- ORF III, ORF and SCARLATTI Arts
- World sales
- Unitel
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