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Songs of Creation: Works by Haydn, Fauré, Sibelius, Dean

Traversing a millennium of music history, soprano Siobhan Stagg and pianist Jonathan Ware explore the fragile relationship between creation and human existence.


The program’s stylistic range includes 12th-century chants by Hildegard von Bingen alongside Haydn’s famous oratorio, Sibelius’s setting of the creation myth from the Finnish Kalevala epic, and an excerpt from Australian composer Brett Dean’s “evolution cantata” In This Brief Moment, which premiered in 2022.


  • Hildegard von Bingen - O vis aeternitatis
  • Hildegard von Bingen - O quam mirabilis est
  • Gabriel Fauré - La chanson d’Ève op. 95
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - You who honor the creator of the immeasurable universe, cantata for voice and piano KV 619
  • Brett Dean - Arioso “After Haydn” (from In this Brief Moment)
  • Joseph Haydn - Now the field is ready (from The Creation)
  • Jean Sibelius - Luonnotar op. 70Nikolai Medtner - Angel (The Angel) op. 1a
  • Angel (The Angel) op. 1aN
  • ikolai Medtner - Praeludium op. 46 No. 1

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Participating artists
Siobhan Stagg
Jonathan Ware
Dates
October 2024
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