The Creation (Haydn) of Eve is usually sung by the same soloist who sings Gabriel. This was the practice Haydn followed, but some conductors prefer to cast each of the five roles with a different soloist. The choral singers are employed in a series of monumental choruses, several of them celebrating the end of one particular day of creation. The orchestra often plays alone, notably in the episodes of tone painting: the appearance of the sun, the creation of various beasts, and above all in the overture, the famous depiction of the Chaos before the creation. The oratorio is structured in three parts.
The Seasons (Tchaikovsky) from the set. In "Troïka" one can hear the jingling sleigh-bells in the right hand. Where Tchaikovsky came from, this was very Russian. "Troika" is also considered the most challenging piece out of Tchaikovsky's very own selection of "The Seasons" because of such a rapidly moving melodic flow, a few "outbursts" to forte, and it also expresses a somewhat complicating technique, which delivers a strong variety of feelings to the interpreters and listeners of "Troika" as shown in the music sheets in the book "Tchaikovsky The Seasons Opus 37bis", which was edited and recorded by Alexandre Dossin. "Troika" has become