Joseph Hayden - The Creation

• The Creation
• Joseph Haydn
•  
• Saffron Walden Choral Society
• Quintin Beer - conductor
•  
• Rebecca Bottone - soprano
• Bradley Smith - tenor
• Morgan Pearse - baritone
• Richard Carr - harpsichord
• Chameleon Arts Orchestra

Haydn’s masterpiece, 'The Creation', celebrates the beginning of the world as described in biblical texts from Genesis, Psalms and from Milton’s Paradise Lost. In Parts 1 and 2, the soloists are archangels, with the chorus as the heavenly host celebrating the “new created world”. In Part 3, Adam and Eve are happily in love in the Garden of Eden. The work finishes with triumphant chorus “The praise of the Lord will endure forever”.