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Illness caused two baritones to bow out, plus an indisposed tenor on the night of the first performance. But soprano Golda Schultz, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst, ultimately revelled in Haydn’s late masterpiece.

An energetic Haydn Seasons for the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and Orchestra.

Simon Rattle and the combined forces of the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus dazzled in a large-scale rendition of Haydn's oratorio that retained the speed, dexterity and precision of a period-instrument performance. 

Are there musical works, even pieces generally considered to be masterpieces, that no longer can catch the listening public’s interest, no matter how expertly they are performed? I have been wrestling with this question since this weekend’s Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus performance of Haydn’s The Seasons.

Eine kontrastscharfe, natürliche Fortsetzung des Haydn2032-Projekts, bei dem – mit Kampmanns umgebender Lichtkunst – vor allem die sanften Töne der lautmalerischen Schilderungen von Il Giardino Armonico und Solisten bezauberten.

Le chef italien avait suscité l'enthousiasme dans La Création au Gstaad Menuhin Festival ; il s'avère tout aussi convaincant dans Les Saisons à Lucerne, en compagnie d'Il Giardino Armonico.

Den Schlusschor des Herbst mit seiner Weinseligkeit gestaltete Jacobs zur wahren Kiste – ein ausgelassenes Trinkgelage, das in einem freudigen Aufschrei endete.