Haydn’s
Creation
Canberra International Music Festival
Friday, 29 April 2022 | 7.30pm
Fitters’ Workshop, Kingston, Canberra
Saturday, 30 April 2022 | 7.30pm
Fitters’ Workshop, Kingston, Canberra
Sunday, 1 May 2022 | 5.00pm
City Recital Hall, Sydney
Presented by the Australian Haydn Ensemble in partnership with the Canberra International Music Festival.
ROLAND PEELMAN
Conductor
SYDNEY CHAMBER CHOIR
SAM ALLCHURCH
Chorusmaster
AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE
directed by Skye McIntosh
ALEXANDRA OOMENS
Soprano
ANDREW GOODWIN
Tenor
JAMES IOELU
Baritone
JOSEPH HAYDN
The Creation
224 years after its premiere, Sydney Chamber Choir joins the Australian Haydn Ensemble and three superb soloists under the guest direction of Roland Peelman for the Australian period-instrument premiere of Haydn’s monumental oratorio The Creation.
This majestic oratorio has always been one of the composer’s most popular works, and in many ways represents the summit of his craft. His transition from a musical depiction of nothingness to the choir’s blazing ‘And there was light’ is one of the great moments in music, and enough to raise the hair of believers and cosmologists alike. The Big Bang is a hard act to follow, but Haydn effortlessly nails it, sustaining over 100 minutes of orchestral tone painting, mighty choruses and lilting arias.
“With a breadth of repertoire, musicality and the kind of unified sound that only a group of singers that have sung together for a long time can bring, Sydney Chamber Choir combines well-known works with extraordinary commissions of new Australian works. Come to be both comforted by the warm and familiar, and challenged and inspired by something new.”
Sébastien Maury
Baritone
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