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Amazing pieces of classical music - 30

Joseph Haydn's 'Die Schöpfung' Hob. XXI:2, third movement, movement 30a. (duet): 'Von deiner Güt, O Herr und Gott' sung by Agnes Giebel (Eva) and Gottlob Frick (Adam) with the choir and orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra conducted by Eugen Jochum in 1966.

Adam and Eve offer a prayer of thanksgiving in C major, accompanied by a choir of angels. Why this recording and not the reference recording with Von Karajan from the same year? A reviewer once wrote that the great strength of Jochum's version lies above all in his symphonic approach that pays tribute to everything and where everything falls into place in an almost exemplary manner.

There are indeed few performances in which the music itself comes across so compellingly. It's as if it must have been before the work's creation when performances of Handel's oratorios in London reached Haydn. Writing the work became a deeply felt act of faith for Haydn himself (then already 65 years old). He even added the words "Praise the Lord" to each section of the composition

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