The Seasons
Album by Joseph Haydn & Elsie Morison & Alexander Young & Michael Langdon & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Beecham Choral Society & Sir Thomas Beecham
The Seasons is an oratorio by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, completed in 1801. The work is a large-scale vocal and orchestral composition that depicts pastoral scenes and the cycle of the year through soloists, chorus and orchestra, combining Classical-era clarity, contrapuntal writing and descriptive instrumental effects, and it represents one of Haydn's significant late-career choral works.

First released: 2005
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Disc 1
- 1.The Seasons: Spring: Overture4:34
- 2.The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: O See Where Cruel Winter Flies2:43
- 3.The Seasons: Spring: Chorus: Come, Gentle Spring!3:08
- 4.The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: From Aries Rolls at Last the Bounteous Sun0:40
- 5.The Seasons: Spring: Air: Now Fairly Runs the Farmer’s Boy4:04
- 6.The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: The Farmer Has His Work Achieved0:40
- 7.The Seasons: Spring: Trio and Chorus: Be Now Gracious, Smiling Heaven!5:39
- 8.The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: Now Heard Are All Our Prayers1:05
- 9.The Seasons: Spring: Trio and Chorus: O How Lovely Gleams the Outlook5:11
- 10.The Seasons: Spring: Chorus and Trio: Ageless! Powerful! Bountiful God!5:36
- 11.The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: In Dove-Grey Mantle Drawing Near3:53
- 12.The Seasons: Summer: Air: The Lively Swain Is Gath’Ring Now His Happy Flocks2:10
- 13.The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: The Rosy Morning Breaks Forth0:41
- 14.The Seasons: Summer: Trio and Chorus: He’s Mounting Up, the Sun4:53
- 15.The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: Now All Are a Stir0:46
- 16.The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: The Midday Sun Is Burning Now1:14
- 17.The Seasons: Summer: Cavatina: Oppress’d Succumbs All Nature Now4:08
- 18.The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: Oh Welcome Now, You Shadier Grove4:43
- 19.The Seasons: Summer: Air: So Reviving to the Senses5:14
- 20.The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: Oh See! Now Rising in the Sultry Air2:10
- 21.The Seasons: Summer: Chorus: Hark the Tempset Drawing Night4:18
- 22.The Seasons: Summer: Trio and Chorus: The Gloomy Clouds Now Part Aside4:28
Disc 2
- 2.The Seasons: Autumn: Overture1:55
- 3.The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: All That Through Her Blossom Fair Spring1:11
- 4.The Seasons: Autumn: Trio and Chorus: So Nature Gives Reward to Zeal8:34
- 5.The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: Now See! To Hazel Bushes There the Youngsters1:17
- 6.The Seasons: Autumn: Duet: You Beauties of the Town8:20
- 7.The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: Now See, on New-Stripp’d Harvest Field1:04
- 8.The Seasons: Autumn: Air: There Look Across the Open Fields!3:12
- 9.The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: Here Beaters, Closing In, Put Up the Hares0:59
- 10.The Seasons: Autumn: Chorus: Hark! The Clamorous Noise That Through the Wood3:26
- 11.The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: On All the Vines Are Glist’Ning1:16
- 12.The Seasons: Autumn: Chorus: Cheer Now! The Wine Is Here6:17
- 13.The Seasons: Winter: Introduction3:06
- 14.The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: Now Sinks the Pale Declining Year2:33
- 15.The Seasons: Winter: Cavatina: Light and Life Are Both Enfeeled2:43
- 16.The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: All Fetter’d Lies the Open Lake1:46
- 17.The Seasons: Winter: Air: Here Stands the Wand’Rer Now5:07
- 18.The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: At His Approach Rings in His Ear1:21
- 19.The Seasons: Winter: Song and Chorus: Purring, Whirring, Purring2:36
- 20.The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: The Flax Has Now Been Spun0:31
- 21.The Seasons: Winter: Song and Chorus: A Maid Who Kept Her Honour Fair3:31
- 22.The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: From Barren East Now Thrust Far Keener Icy Blasts0:48
- 23.The Seasons: Winter: Air: Before Thee Here, Deluded Man4:36
- 24.The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: Remains, Alone, and Is Our Guide0:26
- 25.The Seasons: Winter: Trio and Chorus: Then Breaks the Glorious Day at Last5:20






