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Giovanni Antonini has been recording the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn with the Alpha label for more than five years. Now the series is enriched by another monument by the Austrian composer: Die Schöpfung (The Creation), recorded in 2019 with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and his own orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico. This great oratorio was inspired by those of Handel, which Haydn heard performed by very large forces during his visits to England.

My interest and fascination for the work of Joseph Haydn date back to 1960-64, when I was completing my music and cello studies at the Barcelona Conservatoire and had the opportunity to discover and study some of the composer’s most beautiful quartets. During that time, two special pocket scores always accompanied in my apprenticeship of musical forms and the fascinating discovery of great masterpieces of musical creation: one was J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue and the other Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. Two wonderful works that I later recorded under the ASTRÉE label a few years after having founded and prepared the appropriate music ensembles: L’Art de la Fugue, recorded in March, 1986, with 4 solo wind instruments and 4 violas da gamba from the ensemble HESPÈRION XX, following a year of concerts throughout Europe to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Bach’s birth. It was followed four years later, in December, 1990, by the recording of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, two years after the creation of the orchestra LE CONCERT DES NATIONS.

Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations in Haydn's The Creation. The composer confessed that while composing he had "felt an extraordinary religious fervor." However, this work was also inspired by the spirituality of the Viennese Masonic lodges of his day. It is above all the first secular oratorio, in the sense that its message is addressed to all mankind, exactly like The Magic Flute, in operati.

The Creation Is A Milestone In The History Of The Oratorio, A Work In Which Haydn Set New Standards, Going Far Beyond The Confines Of Viennese Classicism. In It He Describes The Creation Of The World With Ebullient Lightness,Taking The First Chapter Of Genesis As His Starting Point. Scored For What At The Time Were Novel Forces, Thework Features Picturesque Tone-Painting, Celebratory Arias And Monumental Choruses, All Of Which UnderlineHaydn’s Timeless Message And Invite Us To Acknowledge And Preserve The Beauty And Variety Of Creation.