Haydn The Seasons

Available again at a special price, Rene Jacobs's acclaimed recording of Haydn's oratorio the Seasons enables the listener to hear the work as it might have sounded at it's premiere in April 1801. The dramatic changes in style brought about by the Enlightenment are perfectly captured in Haydn's oratorio, with it's decidedly Romantic word-painting. In this music, even though lambs frolic, fish teem and thunder booms, it is the question of Man's place within Nature that is the central issue.