February 17th, 2025

English Haydn Festival 2025June 11th to 15th
Trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins and violinist Jennifer Pike feature as soloists this year with the period-instrument English Haydn Orchestra led by Simon Standage and conducted by Steven Devine. Artists giving lunchtime concerts include the Consone Quartet, and violinist Jacqueline Ross. The 'Grand Finale' evening presents Joseph Haydn's choral masterpiece, The Creation.
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The English Haydn Orchestra, conducted by Steven Devine, with the Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury, directed by David Thomas, provide an 18th century musical experience of Joseph Haydn's 'The Creation', with soloists; soprano Ana Beard Fernandez and two members of Covent Garden Opera, tenor Timothy Langston and bass Eugene Dillon Hooper. On Sunday 15th June, 2025

Of all the compositions that Haydn wrote he certainly demonstrated to his contemporaries, and the World, that he was a master at writing musical illustrations of ‘Life’, starting with his ‘explosion’ of  the word “Light”  sung by the choir, with a powerful orchestral C major chord, at the opening phrase of ‘The Creation’. This masterpiece of choral music is littered with great images of  the birth of  ‘Life’ itself, depicting with an operatic style, the interaction of humans and animals in a ‘New World’. ​