JOSEPH HAYDN
Die Jahreszeiten · Les Saisons · The Seasons

ALIA VOX
AVSA9964
CD1 : 66’30
CD2 : 62’49

JOSEPH HAYDN
Die Jahreszeiten · Les Saisons · The Seasons
Oratorio, Hob. XXI:3 (1799-1801)

Librettiste : Gottfried van Swieten (1733-1803)
basé sur The Seasons de James Thomson (1700-1748)

CD1

1-9. I. Erster Teil: Der Frühling / Spring / Le Printemps        31’17

10-19. II. Zweiter Teil: Der Sommer / Summer / L’Été        35’08

CD2

1-11. III. Dritter Teil: Der Herbst / Autumn / L’Automne        33’42

12-22. IV. Vierter Teil: Der Winter / Winter / L’Hiver       28’57

LE CONCERT DES NATIONS
Lina Tur Bonet concertino

Direction : Jordi Savall

Enregistré du 18 au 23 mai 2024 à la Collégiale de Cardona (Catalogne)
Enregistrement, Montage et Mastering SACD : Manuel Mohino

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INTERPRÈTES

Solistes
Lina Johnson soprano (Hanne)
Tilman Lichdi ténor (Lukas)
Matthias Winckhler baryton (Simon)

LA CAPELLA NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA

Sopranos : Sara Brunel*, Alexandrine Lerouge-Monnot*, Irene Mas,
Rita Morais*, Maëlys Robinne*, Lise Viricel

Mezzo-sopranos – Contraltos : Eulàlia Fantova, Mariona Llobera,
Agustina Lo Vecchio*, Lara Morger, Patrícia Silveira

Ténors : Gerson Coelho, Martí Doñate, Oriol Guimerà,
David Hernández, Ferran Mitjans

Barytons – Basses : Kevin Arboleda-Oquendo*, Lluís Arratia*,
Noé Chapolard, Oriol Mallart, Pieter Stas

Maria Mauri répétitrice
Rochsane Taghikhani coach en diction lyrique

Lluís Vilamajó préparation de l’ensemble vocal

LE CONCERT DES NATIONS

Lina Tur Bonet concertino

Elisabet Bataller, Guadalupe del Moral, Ignacio Ramal,
Margueritte Wassermann* premiers violons
Mauro Lopes chef des seconds violons
Joanna Maria Crosetto*, Maria Roca, César Sánchez* seconds violons
David Glidden chef des altos · Éva Posvanecz, Nina Sunyer* altos
Balázs Máté chef des violoncelles
Sophie Lamberbourg, Bianca Riesner* violoncelles
Xavier Puertas chef des contrebasses · Jussif Barakat contrebasse
Charles Zebley, Eleonora Bišćević* flûtes traversières
Paolo Grazzi, Magdalena Karolak hautbois
Francesco Spendolini, Joan Calabuig clarinettes
Joaquim Guerra, Adrià Sánchez bassons · Katalin Sebella contrebasson
Thomas Müller, Javier Bonet, Jairo Gimeno, Federico Cuevas* cors
Jonathan Pia, René Maze, Pedro de Souza trompettes
Elies Hernandis (alto), Frédéric Lucchi (ténor), Adrien Muller (basse) trombones
Riccardo Balbinutti timbales
Percussions : Isabella Rosini cymbale · Francesco Parodi grosse caisse
Giovanni Nardo tambourin · Ilaria Paolicelli triangle

Luca Guglielmi pianoforte & assistant de direction

JORDI SAVALL Direction

*Jeunes participants à l’Académie

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JOSEPH HAYDN
Die Jahreszeiten · The Seasons · Les Saisons

This recording of Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons has been made possible thanks to our European YOCPA (Youth Orchestra and Choir Professional Academies) project, a programme devoted to encouraging the active and creative participation of young musicians in highly demanding artistic projects. Its philosophy, which is rooted in intergenerational transmission, collective practice and the pursuit of excellence, is fully resonant with the values that for decades Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations have stood for.

In the framework of this project we organised two academies, each one lasting six days. The first, in Cantabria, served as our starting point: days of intense preparatory work, learning and the building of a common language in relation to the piece. The objective of the second academy, which was held in Cardona and also lasted six days, was to perfect the performance and the recording of the work. The collegiate church of Cardona, with its awe-inspiring beauty and its rich, warm acoustics, provided the ideal setting, not only from the technical point of view of sound, but also on the emotional level because of its stimulus to experience a highly contrasted performance, ranging from the most subtle and delicate sounds of the work’s inspiring melodies, some of which clearly have their origin in folk music, to its descriptive evocations of the sounds of animals and impressive descriptions of natural phenomena, as in the Summer storm. According to the musicologist and eminent Haydn specialist H. C. Robbins Landon, if Haydn was unsure about the descriptive passages in The Seasons, it was partly because he suspected that the critics, who had already derided them in The Creation, would not fail to attack them again. Landon admitted this was a possibility, although he stressed that for the 21st century audience they posed as few problems as they had done in the earlier oratorio, as in both cases the most important thing was the music.

Jordi Savall
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