Supported by The Friends of Hereford Three Choirs Festival

Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Geraint Bowen conductor

Gillian Keith soprano
James Gilchrist tenor
Roderick Williams baritone

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) Hob. XXI/3 

To continue the quote from HC Robbins Landon - ‘Haydn, the master orchestrator, surpassed everything he had done before in this respect, for the instrumentation of the piece from beginning to end is breathtakingly beautiful. The Seasons is a Janus, but the face which looks forward is more full of surprise and mystery than the wiser, more perfectly-formed face which surveys half a century of tireless, fruitful activity.’

This performance will be given in German.