The Seasons

Album by Joseph Haydn & Paul McCreesh

The Seasons is an oratorio by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, completed and first performed in 1801. The work features substantial choral and orchestral forces and blends pastoral, descriptive and programme elements to portray the cycle of the year, occupying a late position in Haydn's output as one of his major large-scale vocal-orchestral compositions.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Seasons: Spring: See Winter, stern and gloomy, flees
    5:57
  2. 2.
    The Seasons: Spring: Come, gentle Spring
    3:20
  3. 3.
    The Seasons: Spring: From Aries shines the brightening sun
    0:31
  4. 4.
    The Seasons: Spring: With eagerness the countryman sets forth
    3:17
  5. 5.
    The Seasons: Spring: The countryman has paid his dues
    0:33
  6. 6.
    The Seasons: Spring: Heav'n be gracious, heav'n be bounteous
    5:38
  7. 7.
    The Seasons: Spring: Our fervent pray'rs are heard
    0:58
  8. 8.
    The Seasons: Spring: O what charming sights delight us
    10:28
  9. 9.
    The Seasons: Summer: In darkness shrouded
    3:55
  10. 10.
    The Seasons: Summer: The wakeful herdsman
    2:52
  11. 11.
    The Seasons: Summer: Behold the Sun!
    4:52
  12. 12.
    The Seasons: Summer: The village lads and lasses
    1:52
  13. 13.
    The Seasons: Summer: Exhausted Nature, fainting, sinks
    5:09
  14. 14.
    The Seasons: Summer: How welcome now, ye shady groves
    3:59
  15. 15.
    The Seasons: Summer: How refreshing to the senses
    4:16
  16. 16.
    The Seasons: Summer: Behold, arising through the sultry air
    2:08
  17. 17.
    The Seasons: Summer: Ah! The storm approaches near!
    7:48

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Seasons: Autumn: That which Spring has promis’d
    2:23
  2. 3.
    The Seasons: Autumn: Thus Nature rewards our toil!
    5:34
  3. 4.
    The Seasons: Autumn: See how a bunch of eager lads
    1:11
  4. 5.
    The Seasons: Autumn: Fine ladies of the town
    7:43
  5. 6.
    The Seasons: Autumn: On ravag’d hills
    0:56
  6. 7.
    The Seasons: Autumn: See lo on yonder open field
    3:05
  7. 8.
    The Seasons: Autumn: A tight’ning circle of hunters
    0:37
  8. 9.
    The Seasons: Autumn: Hark, hear the sounds of the chase
    4:05
  9. 10.
    The Seasons: Autumn: On vines, the grapes are glistening
    1:01
  10. 11.
    The Seasons: Autumn: Drink up, drink up, the wine is here!
    6:34
  11. 12.
    The Seasons: Winter: The jaded year now fades away
    5:28
  12. 13.
    The Seasons: Winter: Light and life are enfeebl’d
    2:04
  13. 14.
    The Seasons: Winter: The lake lies lock’d in frosty grip
    2:01
  14. 15.
    The Seasons: Winter: The wand’rer stands perplex’d
    3:51
  15. 16.
    The Seasons: Winter: And drawing near the welcome sight
    1:07
  16. 17.
    The Seasons: Winter: Whirring, whirring, whirring!
    2:46
  17. 18.
    The Seasons: Winter: Now the flax has all been spun
    0:23
  18. 19.
    The Seasons: Winter: A noble squire, of great renown
    3:44
  19. 20.
    The Seasons: Winter: And from the east there blows an icy blast
    0:53
  20. 21.
    The Seasons: Winter: Consider then, misguided man
    4:44
  21. 22.
    The Seasons: Winter: Then dawns that morn so glorious
    5:13

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