The Handel and Haydn Society closed out its bicentennial season this weekend with Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation,” by many estimations his greatest work and the apex of his creative powers. It was ...

How is it possible to depict chaos in music? Franz Joseph Haydn had an answer. Haydn (1732–1809) is The Grand Old Man of classical music, a composer whose career spanned the fading glory of the ...

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When Haydn depicts the first light on earth in "The Creation," it comes on with the sonic equivalent of a megawatt blast in this brawny and soulful performance by the Gabrieli Consort & Players. The ...

The repertoire-led Naxos label is in danger of discovering a new star in Korean soprano Sunhae Im in this disc of Haydn’s Creation. Her Gabriel flows like liquid silver, her Eve adds an exciting, ...

The Creation, staged with Garsington Opera and featuring stunning designs by the artist Pablo Bronstein, features more than 40 Rambert dancers. See how they found the moves to match Joseph Haydn’s ...

In the late 1700s, Joseph Haydn wrote an oratorio in three parts about Creation with the libretto by Gottfried van Sweiten. A powerful and beautiful oratorio performed at Folkoperan by the wonderful ...

Haydn's famous oratorio propounds the legend of God's creation of the world in all its innocence and mystery, from chaos to its crowning achievement, the first man and woman, conveying its images in ...

Joseph Haydn’s Creation Mass will be the subject of the next monthly music appreciation evening organised by the German-Maltese Circle Classical Music Group. It will be conducted by Aldo Fenech, the ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Haydn’s The Creation begins with a big bang – the big bang, presumably – and ...