Joseph Haydn: Great Choral Works
HC21054 (Hänssler Classic, CD/DVD, 6 discs)
COMPILATION (3 December 2021)
Tracks/Chapters: 19 + 15 + 20 + 24 + 15
Booklet pages: 16
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Main country of recording: Germany
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Joseph Haydn: Great Choral Works published on 12 July 2022
Gachinger Kantorei, Christine Schafer, Inga Nielson, Pamela Coburn, Ingeborg Danz, MichaeI Schade, Andreas Schmidt, Wolfgang Schone, Bach CoIlegium Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Frieder Bernius, Helmuth Rilling
Franz Joseph Haydn:
The Creation
The Seasons
The Seven Last Words of Christ
Joseph Haydn is regarded as the 'father of the symphony' and the 'father of the string quartet' for his more than one hundred symphonies and almost seventy string quartets. Haydn also produced numerous operas, masses, concertos, piano sonatas and other compositions. His oratorios The Creation and The Seasons, both composed in the last decade of Haydn's active compositional Iife, are his most widely known and admired choral compositions today, just as they were in his lifetime.