Cheap Haydn: The Seasons (Music) (Dietrich Henschel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Rene Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Marlis Petersen, Werner Gura) Price
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| ARTIST: | Dietrich Henschel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Rene Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Marlis Petersen, Werner Gura |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Harmonia Mundi Fr. |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| TYPE: | Oratorio, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Classical Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Choral |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Seht, Wie Der Strenge Winter Flieht!, Komm, Holder Lenz, Vom Widder Strahlet Jetzt, Schon Eilet Froh Der Ackersmann, Der Landmann Hat Sein Werk Vollbracht, Sei Uns Gnadig, Milder Himmel!, Erhort Ist Unser Flehm!, Oh, Wie Lieblich Ist Der Anblick, Ewiger Machtiger, Gutiger Gott, Im Grauen Schleier Ruckt Heran, Der Munt're Hirt Versammelt Nun, Sie Steigt Herauf, Die Sonne, Nun Regt Und Bewegt Sich, Die Mittagssonne Brennet Jetzt, Dem Druck Erlieget Di Natur, Welche Labung Fur Die Sinne!, O Seht! Es Steiget In Der Schwulen Luft, O Seht! Es Steiget In Der Schwulen Luft, Ach, Das Ungewitter Naht!, Die Dust'ren Wolken Trennen Sich, Was Durch Seine Blute, Den Reichen Vorrat Fuhrt Er Nun, So Lohnet Die Natur Den Fleiss, Seht, Wie Zum Haselbusche Dort, Ihr Schonen Aus Der Stadt, Nun Zeiget Das Entblosste Feld, Seht Auf Die Breiten Wiesen Hin!, Hier Treibt Ein Dichter Kreis, Hort Das Laute Geton, Am Rebenstocke Blinket Jetzt, Juhe! Der Wein Ist Da, Adagio Ma Non Troppo, Nun Senket Sich Das Blasse Jahr, Licht Und leben Sind Geschwachet, Gefesselt Steht Der Breite See, Hier Steht Der Wand'rer Nun, Sowie Er Naht, Schallt In Sein Ohr, Knurre, Schnurre, Knurre!, Abgesponnen Ist Der Flachs, Ein Madchen, Das Auf Ehre Hielt, Vom Durren Osten Dringt, Erblicke Hier, Betorter Mensch, Sie Bleibt Allein Und Leitet Uns, Dann Bricht Der Grosse Morgen An! |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 794881751624 |
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Customer Reviews of Haydn: The Seasons
Excelente Version Creo que Jacobs entendio perfectamente lo que quizo describir Haydn en este bello oratorio y lo plasmó perfectamente en la ejecución con instrumentos de la época que puedo escuchar en estos discos,el caracter y el nivel alcanzado con los cantantes y los instrumentos merece un reconocimiento ya que una ejecución de este tipo no es nada fácil (afinación,tiempos),recomiendo comprar este CD,he escuchado otras versiones de este oratorio(Karajan,Böhm,Collin Davis)son muy buenas tambien pero si quieren escuchar lo que quizo expresar Haydn musicalmente y sobre todo con el sonido de la epoca me quedaría con esta.
WONDERFUL HAYDN
Franz Joseph Haydn happens to be one of my very favorite composers. His oratorios and masses are indeed very special. "The Seasons" finds dear Haydn at his very very best. It is a work with splendid vocal and chorus writing along with masterful writing also for the orchestra with all melding together to form a masterpiece that fully exploits the attributes of the Classical period of so-called classical music as well as being a harbinger of the Romantic period of Classical Music to come (especially its descriptive side of music). In this recording, Rene Jacobs and his forces do Haydn proud providing a marvelous performance of this great work.
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>Playing on "original instruments" Jacobs leads a spirited account of the seasons imparting marvelously the "sounds" of each season from both orchestra and chorus. Never do these "nature recreations" sound weird or laughable as in some recordings that I've heard.
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>No, Marlis Petersen is no Gundula Janowitz (who is?); however, she does sing very well and is a great contributor to the ensembles which are important to this work. I also enjoyed her solo numbers. Tenor Werner Gura and Baritone Dietrich Henschel gave me considerable pleasure also singing with sweet but powerful (when needed) voices. The chorus is "spot on" singing really rather well-listen to the "Drinking Song" "Juhe! Der Wein ist Da." marvelous! Jacobs certainly imparts wonderfully the vitality and rowdiness along with the tenderness of this work!
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>I thoroughly enjoyed hearing this work again with this very fine recording--you will too by buying this CD set. (The sound is marvelous too capturing all of the forces masterfully!)
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A Fresh "Listen" to a Classic Work
The one disclaimer I will make before I begin this review--and it's an important one--is that I have not hear John Elliot Gardiner's "The Seasons," which should be comparable to Rene Jacobs's in many ways. That said, I will proceed to opine that if you know just about any modern-instruments version of this choral-music gem--well, you don't really know the work. Haydn was supposed to say in his latter years that he had just learned how to use the wind instruments and now, doggone it (I'm paraphrasing) "I must leave this world." Jacobs will instantly show you what Haydn meant. This "Seasons" is chock-full of especially piquant utterances from the winds, especially oboe and bassoons (including contrabassoon), which Haydn cleverly uses to portray birds, beasts, thunderstorms, bagpipes: never has the ingenuity and downright beauty of Haydn's orchestral mastery been clearer. That goes for strings and brass as well. Flying insects, country fiddles, hunting horns: Haydn may simply be mimicking the coloristic use of instruments he learned from hearing works like "Israel in Egypt" while in London, but how wonderfully he adapts these sounds to an expanded late-eighteenth-century orchestra.
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>From the very beginning, Jacobs gives notice that the orchestra will have a special prominence in this performance. The orchestral introduction to the first section, "Spring,' depicts the raging winter winds. Jacobs's orchestra does so with a bounding energy that almost requires Baritone Dietrich Henschel to shout his first entry. But he does not. In fact, he gives an elegant, far-from-shouted performance throughout and provides the rock-steady low-voice underpinning that Haydn requires. I'm just as happy with Tenor Werner Gura, who has a tender, Wunderlich-style delivery that's exactly right for farm-boy Lucas. Others have expressed dissatisfaction with Marlis Petersen. It's true that compared to, say, Eugen Jochum's unforgettable Gundula Janowitz, Petersen is a non-starter. But in ensemble work, at least, she does quite well enough--especially with Jacobs shaping numbers such as "Ihr Schonen aus der Stadt" so effectively, with such wonderful cumulative force. The RIAS Chamber Chorus is simply outstanding; just sample the storm chorus or, even better the wine-celebration chorus "Juhe! Der Wein ist Da."
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>Harmonia Mundi provides rich, resonant, bigger-than-life sound that captures both the beauty and the occasional thrilling rawness of that excellent period orchestra. How else can you capture a summer thundershower? Or a barn dance?