Haydn: The Seasons

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. No.1: Introduction: The Overture Paints The Passage Of The Winter To The Spring. Recitative: See, Ho
• 2. No.2-Chorus: Come, Gentle Spring!
• 3. No.3-Recitative: Now In His Course The Sun
• 4. No.4-Aria: With Eagerness The Husbandman
• 5. No.5-Recitative: The Countryman Has Done His Due
• 6. No.6-Soloists And Chorus: Prayer. Be Now Gracious, O Kind Heaven
• 7. No.7-Recitative: Our Humble Pray'rs Are Heard
• 8. No.8-Trio And Chorus: Song Of Joy, With An Alternating Chorus Of Girls And Lads. O What Num'rous Cha
• 9. No.9-Solists And Chorus: Endless God, Mighty God, Merciful God
• 10. No.10-Recitative: The Overture Paints The Dawn Of Day. Her Face In Dewy Veil Conceal'd
• 11. No.11-Aria: The Ready Swain In Gath'ring Now. Recitative: With Rosy Steps Young Day Pours In
• 12. No.12-Soloists And Chorus: The Sun Ascends, He Mounts
• 13. No.13-Recitative: Now Comes In Swarms The Rustic Youth
• 14. No.14-Recitative: 'Tis Noon, And Vertical The Sun
• 15. No.15-Cavatina: Distressfull Nature Fainting Sinks
• 16. No.16-Recitative: O Welcome Now, Ye Shady Groves
• 17. No.17-Aria: O What Comfort To The Senses
• 18. No.18-Recitative: Behold! On Yonder Edge Of Mountains High
• 19. No.19-Chorus: Oh! The Tempest Comes O'er Head
• 20. No.20-Soloists And Chorus: The Cloudy Welkin Now Clears Up

Disc 2

• 1. No.21: Overture: The Overture Indicates The Husbandman's Satisfaction At The Abundant Harvest. Recit
• 2. No.22-Recitative: Th' Abundant Harvest Now He Brings
• 3. No.23-Terzetto And Chorus: So Nature Ever Kind Repays
• 4. No.24-Recitative: Behold, How To The Hazelbank
• 5. No.25-Duet: Ye Ladies Fine And Fair! O Come
• 6. No.26-Recitative: Now On The Stripped Fields Appear
• 7. No.27-Aria: Behold The Wide Extended Meads
• 8. No.28-Recitative: Here Closed Rings Compel The Timid Hares
• 9. No.29-Chorus: Hear, Hear the Clank And The Noise
• 10. No.30-Recitative: The Vineyard Now In Clusters Bright
• 11. No.31-Chorus: Heyday, Heyday! The Liquor Flows
• 12. No.32-Overture: The Overture Paints The Thick Fogs At The Beginning Of Winter.
• 13. No.33-Recitative: Now Sinks The Pale Declining Year
• 14. No.34-Cavatina: Light And Life In Sadness Languish
• 15. No.35-Recitative: By Frost Cemented Stands The Lake
• 16. No.36-Aria: Here Stands The Wand'rer Now
• 17. No.37-Recitative: As He Draws Nigh, Soon To His Ears
• 18. No.38-Solists And Chorus: Set The Wheel Agoing, Make It Snore
• 19. No.39-Recitative: Th' Evening Task Performed Is
• 20. No.40-Song And Chorus: An Honest Country-Girl There Was
• 21. No.41-Recitative: Now From The Livid East
• 22. No.42-Aria: Behold, O Weak And Foolish Man. No.43-Recitative: Alone She Stays! Alone She Too
• 23. No.44-Soloists And Double Chorus: Then Comes The Great And Glorious Morn