Another entry in the Salzburg Festpiele’s Ouverture Spirituelle series, this 2013 performance finds the seemingly ageless Nikolaus Harnoncourt leading the world-famous Wiener Philharmoniker and Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor in Joseph Haydn’s final oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten. Like Vivaldi’s popular set of concerti grossi that features the four seasons of the year, Haydn’s composition, begins with Der Fruhling (Spring) and concludes with Der Winter (Winter). The libretto was an adaptation by Baron Gottfried van Swieten of a series of poems by Scotsman James Thompson. While The Seasons was intended to be performed in either German or English, it is the former that has been the more frequently performed.