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Haydn's Creation not quite a Big Bang at Holland Festival

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“a performance dotted with the surprising contrasts and contrasting tempi”
Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 13 June 2016
Haydn, The Creation
René Jacobs, Conductor
Sunhae Im, Soprano
Thomas Walker, Tenor
Johannes Weisser, Bass-baritone
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