Joseph Haydn’s glorious masterpiece, The Creation, a three-part oratorio composed in 1798, celebrates the creation of the world as depicted in Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Biblical book of Genesis. Complete with a cast of characters and almost cinematic orchestral score, the work plays out as a musical drama, changing landscapes and scenes summoned one after the other before the audience’s eyes.
Inspired in part by Handel’s Messiah, The Creation is Haydn’s crowning masterpiece, a joyful balm in times of trouble. Perofrmance will be sung in English.
With Ealing Choral Society, City of London Sinfonia, soprano Camilla Harris, tenor Andrew Irwin, bass Michael Ronan. Peter Asprey conducts.