Main Performer: Genia Kühmeier (Soprano); Toby Spence (Tenor)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s): (Les) Arts Florissants ensemble
Date of Release: 19/11/2007
Label / Distributor: Virgin Classics / EMI
Pieces in Set: 2
Running Time: 2 hours 43 minutes
Genre(s): Vocal and choral
Stereo: Stereo
SPAR Code: DDD
EAN: 94639523528
Catalogue Number: 395
Work 1
Work Title: (Die) Schöpfung, HobXXI/2
Excerpt(s): 1. PART 1 - Die Vorstellung des Chaos 2. Im Anfange schuf Gott; Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle 3. Und Gott machte das Firmament 4. Mit Staunen sieht dasWunderwerk 20. Und Gott sprach 6. Rollend in schäumenden Wellen 8. Nun beut die Flur 9. Und die himmlischen Heerscharen 10. Stimmt an die Saiten 12. In vollem Glanze 13. Die Himmel erzählen 14. PART 2 - Und Gott sprach 15. Auf starkem Fittiche 16. Und Gott schuf grosse Walfische und ein jedes 17. Und die Engel 18. In holder Anmut stehn 19. Der Herr ist gross in seiner Macht 21. Gleich öffnet sich der Erde Schoss 22. Nun scheint in vollem Glanze 23. Und Gott schuf den Menschen nach seinem 24. Mit Würd' und Hoheit angetan 25. Und Gott sah jedes Ding 28. Vollendet ist das grosse Werk 27. Zu dir, o Herr, blickt alles auf 29. PART 3 - Aus Rosenwolken bricht 30. Von deiner Güt', o Herr und Gott 31. Nun ist die erste Pflicht erfüllt 32. Holde Gattin 33. O glüchlich Paar 34. Singt dem Herren alle Stimmen!.
Composer: (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1796-8
Conductor: William Christie
Orchestra / Ensemble: (Les) Arts Florissants ensemble
Main Performer: Genia Kühmeier (Soprano), Toby Spence (Tenor)
Advantages: Exciting and moving performance, fine singers, orchestra and conductor Disadvantages: None really
...-excited exuberance of a puppy that has treed its first cat!
Background:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) enjoyed a prolific and highly successful career composing in a wide variety of genres from opera to piano sonatas and is widely regarded to have fine-tuned the Classical Style in his string quartets and symphonies. When Haydn started composing "DieSchoepfung" (The Creation in English) in 1786 he had returned to Vienna after a highly successful time in England where his music was feted by everyone from the King downwards. He was now at the height of his powers, with a doctorate from Oxford University in his pocket and was certainly very aware of the commercial value of his music having made a substantial amount of money in England.
From the copious archived documentation, we can read that Haydn felt there was nothing more he could say in...
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And not only because its got a VERY sexy Bruce Willis running around!!!! The film has been on TV alot recently, possibly promoting the new Die Hard 4.0 film, and I was (forced!!) to watch it with my husband, I didn't want to...its not my kind of film, but when we watched it, I found it amazing!!!
Yes some of the acting of the foreign men (Karl), isn't wonderful, but other than that, the film is amazing! The story line is gripping, the characters are played wonderfully by the actors, and theres the right amount of comic factors in there to make it light hearted whilst still been a good action film!
The basic storyline is that of a police agent who goes to see his wife and kids who he lives apart from in new york for christmas, but when he is at the office block she works in, all hell breaks loose and a huge...
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Advantages: Gripping plot, fast paced story, great characters Disadvantages: Can't think of any!
...I love reading but for some reason I don?t seem to have the time to read as much as I would like to so my recent holiday meant that I got some time to loose myself in a good book ? The Business Of Dying
The Business of Dying is Simon Kernick?s first book.
About The Author
Simon Kernick was born 1966 in the town of Slough. After leaving school in the mid 1980s, he worked in a variety of jobs including bring a labourer on a road-building gang (until an industrial accident cut short a promising career); stockroom assistant for a major IT company and a fruit picker,
He also spent several years living and travelling in Canada and the USA before returning to England via Australia and the Far East to complete his studies.
Simon Kernick currently lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two young daughters and is just about to start...
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