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Haydn - The Creation / Piau, Persson, Massey, Harvey, Padmore, Davies, Gabrieli Consort & Players, McCreesh [Box set]

~ Sandrine Piau (Artist), Miah Persson (Artist), Ruth Massey (Artist), Mark Padmore (Artist), Peter Harvey (Artist), et al.
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Product details

  • Audio CD (17 Mar 2008)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Archiv (Universal)
  • ASIN: B000YA536M
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,174 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The First Day - Introduction: The Representation of ChaosGabrieli Players 6:19£0.79
Listen  2. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The First Day - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth - And the Spirit of GodNeal Davies 3:11£0.79
Listen  3. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The First Day - Now vanish before the holy beams - Despairing, cursing rageMark Padmore 4:06£0.79
Listen  4. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Second Day - And God made the firmamentNeal Davies 2:01£0.79
Listen  5. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Second Day - The glorious heav'nly hierarchySandrine Piau 2:16£0.79
Listen  6. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Third Day - And God said: Let the waters under the heaven be gathered togetherNeal Davies0:38£0.29
Listen  7. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Third Day - Rolling in foaming billowsNeal Davies 4:09£0.79
Listen  8. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Third Day - And God said: Let the earth bring forth grassSandrine Piau0:30£0.29
Listen  9. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Third Day - With verdure clad the fields appearSandrine Piau 5:11£0.79
Listen10. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Third Day - And the heavenly host the third day proclaimedMark Padmore0:10£0.29
Listen11. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Third Day - Awake the harp, the lyre awakeGabrieli Consort & Players 2:09£0.79
Listen12. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Fourth Day - And God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of heavenMark Padmore0:39£0.29
Listen13. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Fourth Day - In brightest splendour rises now the sunMark Padmore 3:05£0.79
Listen14. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 1 / The Fourth Day - The heavens are telling the Glory of GodSandrine Piau 4:07£0.79
Listen15. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Fifth Day - And God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantlySandrine Piau0:30£0.29
Listen16. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Fifth Day - On mighty pens uplifted soars the eagleSandrine Piau 8:10Album Only
Listen17. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Fifth Day - And God created great whalesNeal Davies 2:37£0.79
Listen18. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Fifth Day - And the angels struck their immortal harpsNeal Davies0:17£0.29
Listen19. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Fifth Day - Most beautiful appear, with verdure young adorn'd - The Lord is greatSandrine Piau 6:52£0.79
Listen20. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creatureNeal Davies0:23£0.29
Listen21. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - Straight opening her fertile wombNeal Davies 3:27£0.79
Listen22. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - Now heaven in fullest glory shinesNeal Davies 3:37£0.79
Listen23. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - And God created manMark Padmore0:48£0.29
Listen24. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - In native worth and honour cladMark Padmore 3:54£0.79
Listen25. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - And God saw ev'rything that he had madeNeal Davies0:20£0.29
Listen26. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 2 / The Sixth Day - Achieved is the glorious workSandrine Piau 9:43Album Only


Disc 2:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 3 - In rosy mantle now appearsMark Padmore 4:22£0.79
Listen  2. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 3 - By thee with bliss, o bounteous LordMiah Persson10:31Album Only
Listen  3. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 3 - Our duty have we now perform'dPeter Harvey 2:15£0.79
Listen  4. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 3 - Graceful consort!Peter Harvey 8:03Album Only
Listen  5. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 3 - O happy pairMark Padmore0:33£0.29
Listen  6. The Creation (Die Schöpfung) - Text adjustment: Paul McCreesh / Part 3 - Praise the Lord, uplift your voicesSandrine Piau 3:42£0.79

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Acclaimed for their recordings of large-scale masterpieces including Bach's St Matthew Passion, Handel's Saul and Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort turn their attention to Haydn's greatest work: The Creation

Paul McCreesh has revised large parts of the text of the English-language version, also rewriting the recitatives "as Haydn might have done had he been more familiar with the English language"

Not only is this the world premiere recording of this newly revised version, it is also the first release of Die Schoepfung in its equally authentic English version in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue

Employing a luxuriously large cast of five soloists, almost 100 singers and 113 players as used by Haydn for the premiere of the German version, this promises to be the English-language recording of The Creation

McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort are regarded as highly acclaimed experts in recreating large-scale orchestral/choral works as they might have been performed historically; here they bring their unique insight to Haydn's well-loved masterwork

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4.0 out of 5 stars The firmament displays the wonder of his work.....mostly, 25 May 2008
By Mr. S. J. Bonsor "bonsor2" (Horley, Surrey UK) - See all my reviews
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It has become `de rigueur' for choral works to be performed in their original languages: For example, where once Brahms' German Requiem or Haydn's Creation were regularly sung in English- often by large northern choirs - nowadays it seems that no-one dares to sing them in anything other than German.

The fact is that, in the case of The Creation, the English version has as much validity as the German, and it would appear that Haydn had both languages in mind when setting his text: all the more reason to have a recording in English.

Similarly, where once works such as Bach's B Minor Mass would have been given by huge choirs, modern `historically informed' practise tends towards paring down the forces, even to the extreme of having a single singer for each vocal line.

I feel there should be a range of ways of performing the established choral classics, just as I don't think that period instrument groups should have exclusive ownership of anything written before 1850- but that's a bigger debate. Suffice to say that there are precedents for performing The Creation with a large choir and orchestra, so why not?

I know the English text fairly well and for all its faults, and despite the latest trends, it has developed its own currency over the years. Mc Creesh has done a reasonable job in transposing some of the more awkward phrases and providing clearer translations elsewhere, but by and large it's little more than a matter of taste. If you're used to the words, be prepared for a few surprises.

This is a beautifully played and sung recording with McCreesh eliciting a clear intelligent reading of the piece from the Gabrieli Consort and Players which manages to hit the right emotional response. No unwieldiness either from the larger vocal forces.

My main quibble however is with the female soloists. With so many superb British singers, why, in a recording which makes such a great deal out of being sung in English do we have two sopranos Sandrine Piau (French) and Miah Persson (Swedish) whose diction leaves a lot to be desired? Persson almost succeeds, but loses her idiomatic English in her lower register, whilst Piau mangles her words throughout to the extent that I had to follow her sections in the enclosed libretto. That said, the purely musical performance of each is excellent, and the balance between the solo parts and the character of all the solo voices, male and female, works well.
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