Hamburger Bachchor / elbipolis / Thomas Dahl

Joseph Haydn’s »Creation« can be described as the most important oratorio of the Classical period. Together with George Frideric Handel’s oratorios, it had an impact right up to the High Romantic period. The three-part work sets the biblical account of the creation of the world to music in a tremendous wealth of colour, depicting a paradisiacal world with an impressive abundance of life. The choir responds to the narrative with songs of praise, of which »Die Himmel erzählen« has become one of the most popular vocal works.

PERFORMERS

Hamburger Bachchor St. Petri choir

Cuori-Ensemble choir

Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg orchestra

Catalina Bertucci soprano

Daniel Johannsen tenor

Tobias Berndt bass

Thomas Dahl director

PROGRAM

Joseph Haydn
The Creation