The Creation

Album by Joseph Haydn & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus & Simon Rattle

The Creation is an oratorio by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1798. The work blends choral, solo vocal and orchestral forces in a Classical-era tonal idiom with programmatic depictions of nature and the biblical creation narrative, and it exemplifies Haydn's late-career focus on large-scale choral-orchestral composition within the Classical oratorio tradition.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Creation: Representation of Chaos
    6:01
  2. 2.
    The Creation: In the beginning
    2:33
  3. 3.
    The Creation: Now vanish before the holy beams
    3:49
  4. 4.
    The Creation: And God made the firmament
    1:43
  5. 5.
    The Creation: The marvellous works
    2:15
  6. 6.
    The Creation: And God said, Let the waters
    0:38
  7. 7.
    The Creation: Rolling in foaming billows
    4:27
  8. 8.
    The Creation: And God said, Let the earth
    0:27
  9. 9.
    The Creation: With verdure clad
    4:51
  10. 10.
    The Creation: And the heavenly host
    0:09
  11. 11.
    The Creation: Awake the harp
    2:09
  12. 12.
    The Creation: And God said, Let there be lights
    0:39
  13. 13.
    The Creation: In splendour bright
    2:39
  14. 14.
    The Creation: The heavens are telling
    3:48
  15. 15.
    The Creation: And God said, Let the waters
    0:22
  16. 16.
    The Creation: On mighty pens
    7:26
  17. 17.
    The Creation: And God created great whales
    2:22
  18. 18.
    The Creation: And the angels
    0:16
  19. 19.
    The Creation: Most beautiful appear
    3:52
  20. 20.
    The Creation: The Lord is great
    2:27

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Creation: And God said, Let the earth
    0:42
  2. 3.
    The Creation: Straight opening her fertile womb
    3:01
  3. 4.
    The Creation: Now heaven in all her glory shines
    3:14
  4. 5.
    The Creation: So God created Man
    0:37
  5. 6.
    The Creation: In native worth
    3:30
  6. 7.
    The Creation: And God saw every thing
    0:19
  7. 8.
    The Creation: Achieved is the glorious work
    1:25
  8. 9.
    The Creation: On thee each living soul
    4:19
  9. 10.
    The Creation: Achieved is the glorious work
    3:06
  10. 11.
    The Creation: In rosy mantle
    3:43
  11. 12.
    The Creation: By thee with bliss
    2:56
  12. 13.
    The Creation: Of stars the fairest
    4:00
  13. 14.
    The Creation: Hail! bounteous Lord!
    2:06
  14. 15.
    The Creation: Our duty we have now performed
    2:27
  15. 16.
    The Creation: Graceful consort
    3:00
  16. 17.
    The Creation: The dew-dropping morn
    4:09
  17. 18.
    The Creation: O happy pair
    0:22
  18. 19.
    The Creation: Sing the Lord
    3:30

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