Conductor: Ádám Fischer In 2008, the Palace of Arts launched a new initiative that is hoped to become a tradition: instead of a New Year’s concert featuring the usual “light classical music”, to instead perform Joseph Haydn’s magnificent oratorio, which celebrates the miracle of creation and has enjoyed tremendous popularity for the past 210 years. This year too, the production will be conducted by one of the composer’s most dedicated advocates, Ádám Fischer with a rather special orchestra, the... London Philharmonic Orchestra, which was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham. The decision to invite this orchestra and the London Philharmonic Choir is no accident, as Haydn composed The Creation just in London. The great work, on which Haydn laboured for two years, was premièred in late April 1798 in Vienna. The end result was a tremendous artistic and financial success. “Since then The Creation has become one of the emblematic masterpieces of European music, an icon. Nevertheless it is not the respect for this icon, that it is part of the compulsory repertoire alongside the Bach passions, Handel’s oratorios and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. We feel we need The Creation. We crave for it, so someone should demonstrate to us again all the beauties of the world and communicate the feeling of why it is good to live on earth. This is why The Creation has become the eternal music of new beginnings.” (András Batta)
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