Haydn: The Seasons / Gabrieli Consort

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Signum Classics
Release Date
March 24, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, National Forum Of Music, Mccreesh
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 24, 2017
    • UPC
      635212048023
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD480
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Spring: Introduction and Recitative: See Winter, stern and gloomy, flees (Simon, Lukas, Hanne)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    2. Spring: Come, gentle Spring! (Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    3. Spring: Recitative: From Aries shines the bright'ning sun (Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    4. Spring: Aria: With eagerness the countryman sets forth (Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    5. Spring: Recitative: The countryman has paid his dues (Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    6. Spring: Trio and Chorus: Heav'n be gracious, Heav'n be bounteous (Hanne, Lukas, Simon, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    7. Spring: Recitative: Our fervent pray'rs are heard (Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    8. Spring: Duet and Chorus: O what charming sights delight us (Hannah, Lucas, Simon, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    9. Summer: Introduction and Recitative: In darkness shrouded (Lucas, Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    10. Summer: Aria and Recitative: The wakeful herdsman (Simon, Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    11. Summer: Behold the Sun! (Hannah, Lucas, Simon, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    12. Summer: Recitative: The village lads and lasses (Simon, Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    13. Summer: Cavatina: Exhausted Nature, fainting, sinks (Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    14. Summer: Recitative: How welcome now, ye shady groves! (Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    15. Summer: Aria: How refreshing to the senses (Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    16. Summer: Recitative: Behold, arising through the sultry air (Simon, Lucas, Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Jeremy Ovenden, Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    17. Summer: Ah! The storm approaches near! (Lucas, Hannah, Simon, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden, Carolyn Sampson, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    18. Autumn: Introduction and Recitative: That which Spring has promis'd (Hannah, Lucas, Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    19. Autumn: Trio and Chorus: Thus Nature rewards our toil! (Simon, Hannah, Lucas, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    20. Autumn: Recitative: See how a bunch of eager lads (Hannah, Simon, Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Andrew Foster-Williams, Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    21. Autumn: Duet: Fine ladies of the town (Lucas, Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden, Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    22. Autumn: Recitative: On ravag'd hills (Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    23. Autumn: Aria: See lo on yonder open field (Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    24. Autumn: Recitative: A tight'ning circle of hunters (Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    25. Autumn: Hark, hear the sounds of the chase (Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    26. Autumn: Recitative: On vines, the grapes are glistening (Hannah, Simon, Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Andrew Foster-Williams, Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    27. Autumn: Drink up, drink up, the wine is here! (Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    28. Winter: Introduction and Recitative: The jaded year now fades away (Simon, Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    29. Winter: Cavatina: Light and life are enfeebl'd (Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    30. Winter: Recitative: The lake lies lock'd in frosty grip (Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    31. Winter: Aria: The wand'rer stands perplex'd (Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    32. Winter: Recitative: And drawing near the welcome sight (Lucas, Hannah, Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden, Carolyn Sampson, Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    33. Winter: Aria and Chorus: Whirring, whirring, whirring! (Chorus, Hannah)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    34. Winter: Recitative: Now the flax has all been spun (Lucas)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Ovenden

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    35. Winter: Aria and Chorus: A noble squire, of great renown (Hannah, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    36. Winter: Recitative: And from the east there blows an icy blast (Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    37. Winter: Aria and Recitative: Consider then, misguided man (Simon)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh

    38. Winter: Trio and Double Chorus: Then dawns that morn so glorious (Simon, Lucas, Hannah, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Jeremy Ovenden, Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Ben Palmer, Paul McCreesh




The Gabrieli Consort continue their series of award-winning collaborations with the National Forum of Music, Wroclaw, Poland with a new version of Haydn’s great oratorio The Seasons. Using a new performing edition by Paul McCreesh, this recording is the first to feature the large orchestral forces that Haydn called for, including a string section of 60, 8 horns and a choir of 70. As well as the combined forces of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra and National Forum of Music Choir, the recording features solo performances from British singers Carolyn Sampson, Jeremy Ovenden and Andrew Foster-Williams. All physical and digital booklet texts are provided in both English and Polish translations.

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REVIEW:

In the cataclysmic thunderstorm, rasping, minatory brass to the fore, the terrified populace evokes Verdi's 'Dies Irae', while the autumn hunt, raucously fuelled by anarchic natural horns, has never sounded more uninhibitedly exuberant. In the wine harvest, with its final tipsy fugue, McCreesh conjures a Burgenland bacchanalia to rival Jacobs -high praise indeed. McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a Seasons that thrillingly catches both the work's bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime. And for sheer sonic splendour it's in a class of its own.

– Gramophone