Lea Singers Concert - Joseph Haydn, "The Creation"

Lea Singers

Joseph Haydn – The Creation

Lea Singers Chamber Choir

Professional period orchestra led by Catherine Martin

Victoria Longdon – Conductor

Vanessa Bowers – Soprano

Gwilym Bowen – Tenor

Marcus Farnworth – Bass

Pre-concert talk by Lindsay Kemp and Victoria Longdon in conversation.

With its roof-raising choruses and bubbling melodies Haydn’s “The Creation” is one of the most life-affirming and generous two hours of music you can hear. Joseph Haydn once said that when he thought of God he could write only cheerful music. The vivid, pictorial nature of the text, with its rising sun ‘in splendour bright’, its birds with their ‘cooing calls’, and its menageries of tawny lions, fexible tigers, nimble sgas and noble steeds, certainly fired his imagination.

Tickets

• Rollings Wine Co. 26 Station Road, Harpenden, AL5 4SE
• Stage Door, 2 Piggotshill Lane, Southdown, Harpenden, AL5 1LH
• Online through choir website.