Haydn’s The Creation is one of the most important works of his oeuvre and a model for almost all late classicist and romantic oratorios. On the one hand, it retains the visual depiction of Bach’s Passions and the tradition of Handel’s jubilant, monumental choruses, but at the same time it replaces the sublime of all the works of the earlier periods with the everyday, naïve and playful. The audience will be guided through this magical game with the help of the key statements of the work.

Andrea Csereklyei – soprano
János Szerekován – tenor
Lőrinc Kósa – bass
Budapest Academic Choral Society (choirmaster: Ildikó Balassa)

Presented and conducted by: Gábor Hollerung

Haydn: The Creation