Details
Pinner Parish Church
Church Lane
Harrow
London
HA5 3AA
England
Programme
Joseph Haydn – The Creation
Performers
Emma Walshe – soprano
Graham Neal – tenor
Jonathan Brown – Bass
David Gould – Conductor
Pinner Festival Choir
Pinner Festival Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
This year's Pinner Music Festival ends with a performance of Parts 1 and 2 of Haydn's masterpiece 'The Creation'. Sung in English, guest soloists will take the parts of the 3 Archangels, Gabriel (soprano), Uriel (tenor), and Raphael (bass). The libretto follows the 6 days of creation as told in the book of Genesis; heaven and earth are created, followed by the sun and moon, land and water, plants and animals and, finally, man and woman. The score is fabulously inventive with wonderfully descriptive music, starting with the extraordinary and highly original orchestral introduction, the 'Representation of Chaos'. The chorus has a number of rousing numbers including the famous 'The Heavens are telling' and the concert ends, appropriately enough, with the joyous chorus, 'Achieved is the Glorious Work'.
