At the 1982 Proms, Sir Roger Norrington pleaded for a modern performable version of this work in English translation.  
At the 1982 Proms, Sir Roger Norrington pleaded for a modern performable version of this work in English translation.  One character sings a cavatina about how "Light and Life are both enfeebled," and in the first aria, one character sings about he is driving his team along, cheered by a simple song. Like in his eighth symphony, the composer used flutes to depict a thunderstorm, rather than strings as his collaborator requested. The composer dismissed this work as "Frenchified trash [that] was forced upon me," and like its predecessor in the same genre, the libretto was assembled by Baron von Sweiten. It centers on the peasants Simon, Lucas, and Hannah, and is based on a poem by James Thomson. Following up on the success of its composer's The Creation, FTP, name this oratorio by Haydn about the four divisions of the year.
At the 1982 Proms, Sir Roger Norrington pleaded for a modern performable version of this work in English translation.  
The Seasons (or Die Jahreszeiten, do not accept "The Four Seasons")