In celebration of "The Creation" of a new Message Board

[Guest]

Perhaps we need something to celebrate the launching of the new message board.

Having become somewhat addicted to YouTube I wondered what there was for Haydn’s “Creation.” Rather than starting with Chaos, perhaps this clip of "The Heavens are telling" is apposite. Certainly, the participants seem to be enjoying their music making!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae3YGxEgr3M&feature=related

Lisa Milne, sop
Werner Gura, ten
Matthew Rose, bass
Jonathan Bayer, bar
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
John Nelson, conducting.

There seem to be enough versions of this particular part of the work to compile a YouTube BAL!

I wonder whether we will show as much harmony on the board

(To do the music some credit, you do need some external loudspeakers.)

[french frank]

Nice video, r&f. Any thoughts on where it was? I seem to think I've been there ... not the Thomaskirche, is it? I've only been there once (I think there are little animal carvings at the base of the columns in the nave - but they weren't focusing on that ).

[rank_and_file]

ff

A long time since I was in Leipzig, but don’t remember it as the Thomaskirke. As a wild guess it could be the Westerkerk in Amsterdam where I remember an organ recital many years ago.

It certainly is not Exeter Cathedral where I was a couple of Saturdays ago - an amateur orchestra and Tasmin Little. She played VW’s “Lark ascending” from the pulpit, which gave the last bars a certain added lift!

[Don Basilio]

It looks a lovely church, but definitely not English with all that whitewash. German or Dutch, I'd have thought.

[Mary Chambers]

I thought it was the Westerkerk at first, but the amazing Mr Google tells me it is the Grote Kerk in Naarden.

[french frank]

I thought it was the Westerkerk at first, but the amazing Mr Google tells me it is the Grote Kerk in Naarden.

Nothing like the Thomaskirche, now I look (though the TK is whitewashed).



What's more, I don't think it's the one with the animal carvings either. Wonder where that was?

[BBMmk2]

I have always wanted to go to the St Thomas Kirche! Just to feel the atmnospehere there where JSB was!

[rank_and_file]

"... the amazing Mr Google tells me it is the Grote Kerk in Naarden.

Well found, Mary. Using your information, I am posting what Google found for me - which refers to the clip originally posted.

http://sdgmusic.org/news/?cat=31