René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 563 Mb | Total time: 2 h 05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX 2961829.30 | Recorded: 2003
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 563 Mb | Total time: 2 h 05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX 2961829.30 | Recorded: 2003
When Nature took on new meaning. The transition from Winckelmann to Rousseau marked one of the biggest upheavals of thought in the Enlightenment - and it is perfectly illustrated in these four Seasons with their decidedly Romantic 'descriptivism'! In this music, even though lambs frisk, fish teem and thunder booms, it is the question of Man within Nature that is the central issue. By going back to the very first version of The Seasons (with the orchestral introductions played in their entirety), René Jacobs enables us to relive that day in April 1801 that saw the triumph of old 'Papa' Haydn.