The Creation

Album by Joseph Haydn & Gabrieli Consort & Players & Paul McCreesh

The Creation is an oratorio by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, completed and first performed in 1798. Scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, it employs Classical-era orchestration, vivid choral writing and extensive word-painting to portray the creation narrative, and stands as a major large-scale vocal work from Haydn's mature period with notable influence on subsequent choral and symphonic repertoire.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Creation: Part One. The First Day: Introduction. The Representation of Chaos
    6:19
  2. 2.
    The Creation: Part One. The First Day: Recitative "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Raphael, Uriel) - Chorus "And the spirit of God"
    3:11
  3. 3.
    The Creation: Part One. The First Day: Aria "Now vanish before the holy beams" (Uriel) - Chorus "Despairing, cursing rage"
    4:07
  4. 4.
    The Creation: Part One. The Second Day: Accompanied recitative "And God made the firmament" (Raphael)
    2:02
  5. 5.
    The Creation: Part One. The Second Day: Solo with Chorus "The glorious heav'nly hierarchy" (Gabriel)
    2:16
  6. 6.
    The Creation: Part One. The Third Day: Recitative "And God said: Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together" (Raphael)
    0:39
  7. 7.
    The Creation: Part One. The Third Day: Aria "Rolling in foaming billows" (Raphael)
    4:10
  8. 8.
    The Creation: Part One. The Third Day: Recitative "And God said: Let the earth bring forth grass" (Gabriel)
    0:30
  9. 9.
    The Creation: Part One. The Third Day: Aria "With verdure clad the fields appear" (Gabriel)
    5:12
  10. 10.
    The Creation: Part One. The Third Day: Recitative "And the heavenly host the third day proclaimed" (Uriel)
    0:11
  11. 11.
    The Creation: Part One. The Third Day: Chorus "Awake the harp, the lyre awake"
    2:10
  12. 12.
    The Creation: Part One. The Fourth Day: Recitative "And God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven" (Uriel)
    0:40
  13. 13.
    The Creation: Part One. The Fourth Day: Accompanied recitative "In brightest splendour rises now the sun" (Uriel)
    3:06
  14. 14.
    The Creation: Part One. The Fourth Day: Trio and Chorus "The heavens are telling the glory of God" (Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael)
    4:08
  15. 15.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Fifth Day: Recitative "And God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly" (Gabriel)
    0:31
  16. 16.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Fifth Day: Aria "On mighty pens uplifted soars the eagle" (Gabriel)
    8:10
  17. 17.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Fifth Day: Accompanied recitative "And God created great whales" (Raphael)
    2:38
  18. 18.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Fifth Day: Recitative "And the angels struck their immortal harps" (Raphael)
    0:18
  19. 19.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Fifth Day: Trio "Most beautiful appear, with verdure young adorn'd" (Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael) - Chorus "The Lord is great"
    6:53
  20. 20.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Recitative "And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature" (Raphael)
    0:24
  21. 21.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Accompanied recitative "Straight opening her fertile womb" (Raphael)
    3:27
  22. 22.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Aria "Now heaven in fullest glory shines" (Raphael)
    3:38
  23. 23.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Recitative "And God created man" (Uriel)
    0:49
  24. 24.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Aria "In native worth and honour clad" (Uriel)
    3:54
  25. 25.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Recitative "And God saw everything that he had made" (Raphael)
    0:21
  26. 26.
    The Creation: Part Two. The Sixth Day: Chorus and Trio "Achieved is the glorious work" (Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael)
    9:43

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Creation: Part Three. Accompanied recitative "In rosy mantle now appears" (Uriel)
    4:22
  2. 3.
    The Creation: Part Three. Duet with Chorus "By thee with bliss, o bounteous Lord" (Eve, Adam)
    10:31
  3. 4.
    The Creation: Part Three. Recitative "Our duty have we now perform'd" (Adam, Eve)
    2:16
  4. 5.
    The Creation: Part Three. Duet "Graceful consort!" (Adam, Eve)
    8:03
  5. 6.
    The Creation: Part Three. Recitative "O happy pair" (Uriel)
    0:33
  6. 7.
    The Creation: Part Three. Chorus "Praise the Lord, uplift your voices"
    3:43

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