Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Haydn: Creation-Chambord Sinfoni (1993) Rating: Starring: Director: Georges Bessonnet Category: Music, Special Interest Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: [None] Length: 115 mins     THE CREATION was undoubtedly the first great work in the history of Haydn's music about which he is reported to have said: "I am taking my time because I want it to last."He spent two years relentlessly working on it. Based on a librettoin English originally intended for Handel, the text, which took its inspiration from the Bible and Million's Paradise Lost, was brought back from London by Baron Gottfried van Sweiten (1733-1803), who adapted it to German. The first performance was hosted in private by Prince Schwarzenberg on April 30, 1798.The first public performance was given shortly after on March 19, 1799, at the Burgheater in Vienna, Austria. The score was published in 1800 with, for the first time, the text in both German and English.The whole of Europe was captivated. Contemporaries saw in THE CREATION, apart from a work of genius, a proclamation of humanity in the likeness of God and also concerns of brotherhood and freemasonry already denounced seven years earlier in Mozart's Enchanted Flute. This work turned Haydn, as seen by his contemporaries, into a sort of secular High Priest!The three parts of the oratorio a