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Title: Haydn DVD : The Creation - Classical Music DVD - Haydn DVD : The Creation
Artist: Arleen Augér, Gabriele Sima, Peter Schreier
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Conductor: Gustav Kuhn
Region: 0
Sound: Stereo
Screen Format: 4:3
Price: £18.95
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Haydn DVD : The Creation - Classical Music DVD - Haydn DVD : The Creation
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The performance on this DVD was the high point of a festival organized by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. This recording was filmed on 31st of March - Haydn's birthday - in the Great Hall of the Old University.
The venue is notable, as it was here, on 27th March 1808, that Haydn himself attended a gala performance of his already hugely popular Schöpfung under the direction of Antonio Salieri. At almost seventy-six, Haydn was carried to the hall in a sedan chair before an audience that included Ludwig van Beethoven. It was to be his last ever appearance at a public concert.
This gala performance uses a reduced chorus of thirty-eight singers and an orchestra of more or less the same size and instruments of the kind that were customary in Haydn's day, achieving a much darker and mellower string sound, and a sympathetic blend of the wind instruments' characteristic colours and registers. The woodwinds in particular are frequently used by Haydn for onomatopoeic effect, but the brass and even the lower strings are similarly employed.
Haydn DVD : The Creation - Classical Music DVD - Haydn DVD : The Creation
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