Haydn The Creation: Barbican 40th anniversary at Barbican Hall, London on Thursday 3rd March 2022

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Haydn The Creation

Barbican 40th anniversary

Part of the London Symphony Orchestra 2021-22 Season

Add to my Calendar 03-03-2022 20:00 03-03-2022 22:00 36 Haydn The Creation Let there be light! Sir Simon Rattle toasts the Barbican’s 40th birthday with Haydn’s Creation – music that always sounds young. Out of chaos comes wonder; from darkness, light. Haydn’s oratorio The Creation is more than just a gloriously tuneful retelling of the Book of Genesis. Inspired by Haydn’s visits to London and the optimism of the Enlightenment, it’s a celebration of the act of creativity itself, overflowing with majesty, humour and the sheer, irrepressible joy of life. No wonder, then, that it’s one of Sir Simon Rattle’s desert island discs: a masterpiece on an epic scale by the genius whom Rattle describes as ‘the most intelligent, the most generous, and certainly the funniest’ of all composers. So what better way to mark the 40th anniversary of our home, the Barbican, than with the full LSO Chorus, an unsurpassable team of soloists, and music that – 224 years after its premiere in Vienna – sounds as fresh as the day it was first imagined Barbican Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England

Thursday 3rd March 2022
8:00 PM

Programme

Joseph Haydn – The Creation: Selection of arias, recitatives and choruses

Performers

Sir Simon Rattle – Conductor
Lucy Crowe – soprano
Andrew Staples – Tenor
Roderick Williams – baritone
Simon Halsey – chorus director

London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

Let there be light! Sir Simon Rattle toasts the Barbican’s 40th birthday with Haydn’s Creation – music that always sounds young.

Out of chaos comes wonder; from darkness, light. Haydn’s oratorio The Creation is more than just a gloriously tuneful retelling of the Book of Genesis. Inspired by Haydn’s visits to London and the optimism of the Enlightenment, it’s a celebration of the act of creativity itself, overflowing with majesty, humour and the sheer, irrepressible joy of life.

No wonder, then, that it’s one of Sir Simon Rattle’s desert island discs: a masterpiece on an epic scale by the genius whom Rattle describes as ‘the most intelligent, the most generous, and certainly the funniest’ of all composers. So what better way to mark the 40th anniversary of our home, the Barbican, than with the full LSO Chorus, an unsurpassable team of soloists, and music that – 224 years after its premiere in Vienna – sounds as fresh as the day it was first imagined

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