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Performers: Simona Šaturová (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (alto), Corby Welch (tenore), Yorck Felix Speer (basso) – Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra – Helmuth Rilling
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Composer
Joseph Haydn
| 1732-1809As Kapellmeister to Prince Esterházy, Haydn composed numerous instrumental works and various operas, as well as making important contributions to the genre of church music, including fourteen Latin masses, of which only twelve are authentic or complete; these are complemented by motets and offertories, two important Te Deum settings, two Salve Reginas, a Stabat Mater, and the different versions of the Sieben Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze. The masses were composed continually between 1749 and 1802, except for the years 1783–1795, and therefore constitute the genre with which Haydn was occupied over the longest period of time. The six (authentic or complete) masses composed before 1782 are stylistically very different, and as well as short Missae breves there are more extended masses with rich orchestral scoring; by contrast the six so-called late masses, written from 1796 onwards, form a comparatively homogeneous group of more extensive works scored for large forces. With his two great oratorios Die Schöpfung (The Creation) (1798) and Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) (1801) Haydn established the tradition of the German oratorio for middle-class music making. Personal details
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Conductor
Helmuth Rilling
| 1933
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Soloist - alto
Roxana Constantinescu
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Soloist - bass
Yorck Felix Speer
The bass-baritone Yorck Felix Speer studied singing at the music conservatories in Hamburg and Lübeck. He has performed in numerous concerts with leading orchestras and choruses such as the Bach Collegium Munich, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz [German Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate] and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester. He regularly performs throughout Europe, in France, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Switzerland. He made his debut in 2002 as Figaro in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro under Christian Kabitz. A further highlight was a tour with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Philippe Herreweghe in autumn 2006. Yorck Felix Speer has been invited to sing the part of Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Riccardo Chailly in 2009. Personal details