From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Haydn's oratorio The Creation takes its theme from the book of Genesis and from Milton's Paradise Lost. Using a text possibly intended for Handel, Haydn produced a work of maturity, complexity and brilliance. This is the first of many Old Testament connections in this BBC Proms season. Presented by Penny Gore.
Christiane Oelze (soprano), Paul Groves (tenor), John Relyea (bass), Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Charles Mackerras
Haydn The Creation, part 1 (sung in German)
8.15 Twenty Minutes
Ruth Padel, this year's poet in residence at the Proms, talks about philosophical and poetic images of creation, exemplified in Haydn's Creation and William Blake's poem The Tyger, published in 1794, the year of Haydn's second visit to London.
8.35 Haydn The Creation, parts 2 and 3Ã
(Repeated Tuesday 2pm)
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