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Simon Halsey talking about Haydn’s “The Seasons”
Simon Rattle conducts Haydn’s “The Seasons”
According to Sir Simon Rattle himself, there are few other composers with whom he has a closer relationship than with Haydn – it was “love at first sight” when he encountered these works as a young musician. In 2009, Rattle conducted Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons: a work which entrances through its magnificence and its basically sunny disposition. The vocal soloists are Christiane Oelze, John Mark Ainsley and Thomas Quasthoff.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Christiane Oelze
John Mark Ainsley
Thomas Quasthoff
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