Josef Haydn's masterpiece The Creation is our featured work this week on Great Sacred Music.

The music is sublime yet always accessible in Haydn's signature style.

The libretto is taken from Genesis, Psalms and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Enjoy!

 

Rob Kennedy

Great Sacred Music

The Classical Station

http://theclassicalstation.org

 

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08:00:20
Cesar Franck: Panis angelicus
Accentus, Laurence Equilbey
Pavol Breslik, tenor; Sonia Wieder-Atherton,
cello; Daniel Maurer, organ

08:05:28
Orlando Gibbons: See, see, the word is incarnate
Stile Antico; Fretwork

08:12:46
Alessandro Melani: Laudate pueri
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Rinaldo Alessandrini, organ

08:23:35
Don Carlo Gesualdo: O vos omnes
Chanticleer, Joseph Jennings

08:29:20
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Hymn of Thanksgiving ~ All Night Vigil in Memory of St. John the

Baptist
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Timo Nuoranne

08:36:47
Felix Mendelssohn: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Chamber Choir of Europe; Wurttemberg Philharmonic, Nicol Matt
Raimund Spogis, baritone

08:51:09
Charles Wood
O Thou the central orb
Guildford Cathedral Choir
Andrew Millington
Peter Wright, organ

08:57:11
J.S. Bach: Cantata 88, "Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden"
Holland Boys' Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Marcel Beekman, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

09:17:45
Josef Haydn: The Creation (Die Schopfung)
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Sylvia McNair, soprano; Donna Brown, soprano;
Michael Schade, tenor; Gerald Finley, bass; Ronald Gilfry, bass