FRIDAY SERIES 2 Hannu Lintu, Conductor Helena Juntunen
30.9. FRIDAY SERIES 2 Helsinki Music Centre at 19.00 Hannu Lintu, conductor Helena Juntunen, soprano Topi Lehtipuu, tenor Neal Davies, baritone Helsinki Music Centre Choir, coach Tapani Länsiö Joseph Haydn: The Seasons 134 min I Spring II Summer INTERVAL 20 min III Autumn IV Winter Interval at about 20.15. The concert ends at about 21.40. Broadcast live on Yle Radio 1 and online at yle.fi/rso. 1 JOSEPH HAYDN vocal numbers are recitatives, arias, du- ets, trios and choruses in relatively free (1732–1809): combination. All three soloists may THE SEASONS give voice in a single recitative, and the transitions from solos to choruses are The four parts of The Seasons paint a flexible and musically effective. sweeping fresco of country life: Nature’s The Seasons begins with Spring, awakening in the spring, the heat and though the orchestral introduction thunderstorms of summer, the hunting still paints a picture of “surly winter” and harvesting of autumn and finally before spring finally bursts out in the the harsh, somnolent days of winter. choral Komm, holder Lenz! (Come, gen- The annual round also serves as a met- tle spring!) in lilting, pastoral 6/8 time. aphor for the stages in human life, from The solos are mostly in the tradition- youth to old age. The text of Winter al- al Singspiel style, and Simon’s aria ludes directly to this in Simon’s aria Schon eilet froh der Ackersmann (With Erblicke hier, betörter Mensch (Consider joy th’impatient husbandman) could this, misguided man). well be attributed to The Magic Flute’s Like his great oratorio The Creation, Papageno, though Simon is not a bird- The Seasons was a major project for catcher but a farmer eager to get out Haydn, and he was able to use what into the fields.
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