The Seasons

by Joseph Haydn; Elsie Morison, Alexander Young, Michael Langdon, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beecham Choral Society, Sir Thomas Beecham

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. The Seasons: Spring: Overture4:34
  2. The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: O See Where Cruel Winter Flies2:43
  3. The Seasons: Spring: Chorus: Come, Gentle Spring!3:08
  4. The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: From Aries Rolls at Last the Bounteous Sun0:40
  5. The Seasons: Spring: Air: Now Fairly Runs the Farmer’s Boy4:04
  6. The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: The Farmer Has His Work Achieved0:40
  7. The Seasons: Spring: Trio and Chorus: Be Now Gracious, Smiling Heaven!5:39
  8. The Seasons: Spring: Recitative: Now Heard Are All Our Prayers1:05
  9. The Seasons: Spring: Trio and Chorus: O How Lovely Gleams the Outlook5:11
  10. The Seasons: Spring: Chorus and Trio: Ageless! Powerful! Bountiful God!5:36
  11. The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: In Dove-Grey Mantle Drawing Near3:53
  12. The Seasons: Summer: Air: The Lively Swain Is Gath’Ring Now His Happy Flocks2:10
  13. The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: The Rosy Morning Breaks Forth0:41
  14. The Seasons: Summer: Trio and Chorus: He’s Mounting Up, the Sun4:53
  15. The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: Now All Are a Stir0:46
  16. The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: The Midday Sun Is Burning Now1:14
  17. The Seasons: Summer: Cavatina: Oppress’d Succumbs All Nature Now4:08
  18. The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: Oh Welcome Now, You Shadier Grove4:43
  19. The Seasons: Summer: Air: So Reviving to the Senses5:14
  20. The Seasons: Summer: Recitative: Oh See! Now Rising in the Sultry Air2:10
  21. The Seasons: Summer: Chorus: Hark the Tempset Drawing Night4:18
  22. The Seasons: Summer: Trio and Chorus: The Gloomy Clouds Now Part Aside4:28

CD 2

  1. The Seasons: Autumn: Overture1:55
  2. The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: All That Through Her Blossom Fair Spring1:11
  3. The Seasons: Autumn: Trio and Chorus: So Nature Gives Reward to Zeal8:34
  4. The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: Now See! To Hazel Bushes There the Youngsters1:17
  5. The Seasons: Autumn: Duet: You Beauties of the Town8:20
  6. The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: Now See, on New-Stripp’d Harvest Field1:04
  7. The Seasons: Autumn: Air: There Look Across the Open Fields!3:12
  8. The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: Here Beaters, Closing In, Put Up the Hares0:59
  9. The Seasons: Autumn: Chorus: Hark! The Clamorous Noise That Through the Wood3:26
  10. The Seasons: Autumn: Recitative: On All the Vines Are Glist’Ning1:16
  11. The Seasons: Autumn: Chorus: Cheer Now! The Wine Is Here6:17
  12. The Seasons: Winter: Introduction3:06
  13. The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: Now Sinks the Pale Declining Year2:33
  14. The Seasons: Winter: Cavatina: Light and Life Are Both Enfeeled2:43
  15. The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: All Fetter’d Lies the Open Lake1:46
  16. The Seasons: Winter: Air: Here Stands the Wand’Rer Now5:07
  17. The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: At His Approach Rings in His Ear1:21
  18. The Seasons: Winter: Song and Chorus: Purring, Whirring, Purring2:36
  19. The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: The Flax Has Now Been Spun0:31
  20. The Seasons: Winter: Song and Chorus: A Maid Who Kept Her Honour Fair3:31
  21. The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: From Barren East Now Thrust Far Keener Icy Blasts0:48
  22. The Seasons: Winter: Air: Before Thee Here, Deluded Man4:36
  23. The Seasons: Winter: Recitative: Remains, Alone, and Is Our Guide0:26
  24. The Seasons: Winter: Trio and Chorus: Then Breaks the Glorious Day at Last5:20