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...Haydn: The Seasons (Soprano Ileana Cotrubas, Tenor Werner Krenn, Bass Hans Sotin, Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati conductor, London; 3 LPs). This is Haydn's other major oratorio, structurally less cohesive and dramatically less powerful than The Creation, but a work in which the aging composer set out to demonstrate all that he could do in a wide range of styles and forms. In other words, a compendium of glories. The text, from James Thomson's panoramic poem written in 1730, inspires passages of musical landscape painting, evocations of the hunt, human scenes of yeomen...
...move from church choirs and amateur choruses into a professional concert series. In the past three years, the group (which works with a nucleus of 29 singers and 28 instrumentalists) has given notable performances of such works as Mozart's Requiem, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Haydn's Nelson Mass, and yes, the Messiah, every year...
...occasion requires, the ranks break apart like a set of Chinese boxes. In the course of two recent concerts at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-one devoted to the music of Aaron Copland, the other to works by Joseph and Michael Haydn-they subdivided into such combinations as a piano with string trio and a 13-piece mixed ensemble, besides playing at full strength...
...Paul programs pair old and new, classical and modern in order to place one in the perspective of the other. A highly successful series, for example, featured the works of John Cage in tandem with those of Haydn. Cage, Elliott Carter and Hans Werner Henze have all served residencies in St. Paul. Almost half of the orchestra's selections are from the 20th century, and the majority of those are by American composers...
Banchetto Musicale--Mozart and Haydn, Jordan Hall...