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Juilliard415 x Yale Schola Cantorum at Woolsey Hall

Kentaro Ogasawara May 7, 2026

Haydn’s Die Schöpfung by Juilliard415 x Yale Schola Cantorum at Woolsey Hall at Yale University on 5.2.2026. After New York the previous night, Violinist Ian told me about it. I bought a train ticket in the afternoon and arrived in New Haven in the evening. The trip took about three hours, but listening to the music while reading the text made the time disappear. From the station, I walked about thirty minutes to the hall. There was a courtyard, unbelievably quiet. A very particular kind of silence. I wished I had arrived earlier and spent more time there.

I woke in the hall at seven. At first, it reminded me of Boston Symphony Hall, but standing in the middle, it felt like a completely different kind of space. There are around 2,600 seats. It is enormous. Large windows on both sides let in abundant natural light. Even my own speaking voice seemed to contain more air, and the orchestral “big bang” expanded on that same scale. In front stood a gigantic organ. Hearing organ music in that hall would probably take your soul out of your body.

Their universe sounded entirely different from the previous night at Alice Tully Hall. Concertmaster Epongue Wei-Dikaki Ekille's playing during the vocal accompaniment was more soloistic, intertwining with the singers. The three angels sounded fresher, and more than admiring the singers themselves, I found myself enjoying the drama of them as angels.

Isabel Barbato's Gabriel in No. 5 and the following aria astonished me. I could hear the core of her voice: strong, distinctly colored, unmistakably her own. At the same time, the sound spread into the hall’s soft, thick air. It felt as if two different timbres existed simultaneously.

At Alice Tully, the chorus had been sculpted with clear three-dimensional lines between the parts. At Woolsey, the voices felt more like particles dispersing into space. Out of complete chaos came an explosion, and as the days of creation unfolded—one, two, three—the sound gradually became rounder and more expansive. By the end of Part II, it felt almost like hearing Mozart with the Vienna Philharmonic: endless overtones spreading outward, delicate vibrato and tremolo extending like distant mountain ridges.

At Alice Tully, I sensed Schubert; at Woolsey, I sensed Mozart.

By Part III, the two singers had become Papageno and Papagena. In another acoustic world, they threw themselves into the same work, and within that immense space, they themselves became part of Haydn’s creation.

Since they will perform in Venice during the height of the Biennale, I keep wondering what happens when students studying early music in America perform Haydn’s German-language Creation in Italy. Anyone interested should go hear it.

Afterward, I took a free bus back to the station, caught the 10:45 train, and arrived in Harlem at 12:30 a.m.



5.2.2026

Juilliard415

Yale Schola Cantorum

Grete Pedersen, Conductor

Matthew Dexter Raphael

Sam Denler Uriel

Isabel Barbato Gabriel

Eden Bartholomew Eve

Lucas Zuehl Adam

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809) Die Schöpfung (The Creation), Hob. XXI:2

(1797–98)



5.2.2026

コネチカット州のニューヘブンにあるイエール大学のウールジーホールでジュリアード415とイェール・スコラ・カントルムのハイドンの天地創造を聴いた。前日のニューヨークの公演が終わった後に、イアンが教えてくれた。昼過ぎの電車の切符を買って夕方ついた。3時間かかるが、曲を聴きながらテキストを読んでいると、あっというまについた。駅から30分くらいあるいて会場まで行った。中庭があって物凄く静かだった。独特の静けさだ。もっと早く来てゆっくりしたらよかった。7時に会場の中に入った。ボストンのシンフォニーホールに似ていると思ったが、真ん中に立ってみると独特の空間だった。席は2600ある。とても大きな空間だ。両サイドには大きな窓があって、自然の光がたっぷりはいる。自分の話し声も空気をたくさん含んで、楽器のビックバンもそんなスケールで広がっていった。目の前には巨大なオルガン。ここでオルガンを聴いたら魂を抜かれる。彼らの宇宙は前日のアリスタリーと全然違うように聴こえた。コンサートマスターのEpongue Wei-Dikaki Ekilleの声の伴奏をするときの演奏が彼らの歌唱によりソリスティックに絡んでいた。3人の天使の声はより瑞々しく、彼らよりも、天使としてのドラマをより楽しむことができた。イザベルのガブリエルのNr.5やその後のアリアはびっくりした。彼女の声の芯が聴こえた。強くて、イザベルの声の色。そして、空間に広がる柔らかくて厚い空気に広がる音色。2つの音色が同時にした。合唱は、アリスタリーでは立体的に声部が描かれていたが、ウールセイでは、音の粒子が空間に広がっていくような感覚だった。めちゃめちゃなカオスから爆発が起こって1-2-3と神の創造が進むにつれて、音はどんどんまろやかに広がり、2部の最後はモーツアルトをウィーンフィルで聴いているような、倍音の無限の広がりと遠くに広がる山脈の尾根を眺めているような丁寧で美しいビブラートやトレモロを楽しんだ。アリスタリーではシューベルトを感じたが、ウールジーではモーツアルトを感じた。3部の2人はもはや、パパゲーノとパパゲーナだった。彼らは別な空間で同じ曲に身を投じ、大きな空間で彼らはハイドンの創造物そのものとなっていった。イタリアのビエンナーレ真っ最中のベネチアで公演があるので、アメリカの古楽を勉強している学生がそこでドイツ語のハイドンの天地創造を演奏したらどうなるか。興味ある人はぜひ。帰りは無料のバスで駅までいって、10:45の電車で12:30にハーレムについた。      


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