Haydn: An Imaginary Orchestra Journey | Arranged by Sir Simon Rattle

Lucerne Festival 2015
Simon Rattle plays the role of chief cook in this concert, serving up a "Haydn Pastiche", a musical "pastry" that he created from various ingredients and has finely seasoned. Rattle gathered together ten of the most original and avant-garde-like instrumental movements by that musical humorist to fashion a "samphonie imaginaire", a new Haydn symphony that never existed before.

Rattle takes us back to the birth hour of creation, lets the earthquake, whisks us off to a desert island, unleashes the stormy sea as well as its lovely waves, and, above all, shows the allegedly conservative "Papa Haydn" as an odd bird who astounds his audience in the final movements of his symphony with whimsical ideas, from having the players seem to retune their instruments to their departure from the stage.

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▷ 00:00 I. Introduction. Representation of Chaos. Largo (From The Creation, Hob.XXI:2)
▷ 05:58 II. The Earthquake. Presto con tutta la forza (Last Words of Saviour on Cross, Hob.XX:1)
▷ 07:34 IIIa. Sinfonia. Largo-Vivace assai (L'isola disabitata, Hob.Ia:13)
▷ 11:28 IIIb. Sinfonia. Allegretto-Vivace (L'isola disabitata, Hob.Ia:13)
▷ 13:48 IV. Largo (Symphony No. 6 in A Major, Hob.I:64)
▷ 19:58 V. Minuet & Trio (Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Hob.I:6)
▷ 24:17 VI. Finale. Presto (Symphony No. 46 in B Major, Hob.I:46)
▷ 28:19 VII. Finale. Prestissimo (Symphony No. 60 in C Major, Hob.I:60)
▷ 30:04 VIII. Introduction to Winter (Original version from The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3)
▷ 34:16 IXa. Finale. Presto (Symphony No. 45 in F-Sharp Minor, Hob.I:45)
▷ 37:13 IXb. Finale. Adagio (Symphony No. 45 in F-Sharp Minor, Hob.I:45)
▷ 41:15 X. Music for Musical Clocks (Flötenuhrstücke, Hob.XIX:1-32)
▷ 43:26 XI. Finale. Allegro Assai (Symphony No. 90 in C Major, Hob.I:90)

Music composed by Joseph Haydn
Sir Simon Rattle - Musical Arrangement & Conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker

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