Haydn: Die Schopfung

Haydn on the most grandiose scale, with star singers and a huge orchestra. There is plenty of glamour, and Muti is excitingly dramatic. Somehow this is rather a cosy creation of the world, though. Michael Tanner

 

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:30 pm

COMPOSERS: Haydn
LABELS: Arthaus
WORKS: Die Schöpfung
PERFORMER: Popp, Araiza, Ramey, Bär; Vienna PO/Riccardo Muti (Salzburg, 1990)
CATALOGUE NO: 101 479

Haydn on the most grandiose scale, with star singers and a huge orchestra. There is plenty of glamour, and Muti is excitingly dramatic. Somehow this is rather a cosy creation of the world, though. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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