With the aim of starting a new tradition, the Palace of Arts came to the decision to celebrate the new year of 20008 not by the usual, light music played in other places but with the delicate oratory of Joseph Haydn which involves the magic of the creation and which has been a favourite with audiences for 210 years: Haydn: A creation, Hob. XXI:2 – the oratory which took the composer two years to complete.
