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This electric overture was highly innovative in its day. Set explosively in the key of C Minor it ranges wildly over many different keys and contains some serious dissonances. It struggles to retain contact with the main theme until it finally resolves itself in the same now gentle C Minor key.

It was obviously designed to keep audiences on their toes (or at least awake in their seats!) and sets the musical scene which Franz Joseph must have envisaged through William Herschel's telescope in that room in Slough all those years ago.

Altogether the overture is a splendid opening to MusicSmiles' sortie into Haydn's The Creation.

Let's continue our journey through space by hearing  Gabriel's Recitative from The Creation . . .

 


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