PROGRAM

* Joseph Haydn: The Seasons Oratorio for solos, mixed choir and orchestra Hob. XXI:3

Music/Classic/Vocal  “Everyone sing! Let’s be joyful! Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah! Long live wine!”, carouses the choir in Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons, a work of both majesty and folksiness. It’s sung by the Lower Austrian Concert Choir, here continuing its musical partnership with the Tonkunstler. The work celebrates the juice of the grape – for which Haydn has the orchestra imitate the hurdy gurdy, fiddle and bagpipes – but it also depicts all manner of other seasonal pleasures in varied musical techniques, sounds that can be immediately understood in line with Rousseau’s call for a return to nature. Together with Ivor Bolton at the podium and selected soloists, this promises to be an unforgettable musical experience.

Golda Schultz Soprano, Werner Güra Tenor, Tareq Nazmi Bass, Ivor Bolton Conductor, Konzertchor Interpunkt, Tonkunstler Orchestra