MOZART'S GREAT MASS

Boston Globe (David Weiniger)
"Almost 200 years into its career, the Handel and Haydn society is still performing like a group of raucous upstarts, infusing the music of the past with pure headlong energy."

"Under Llewellyn’s electricity-charged leadership, the large period-instrument orchestra and the medium-sized chorus performed magnificently.  The orchestra’s virtuosity and articulation were exceptional..."

"The H&H chorus sang with its customary verve, flexibility and clarity of diction."

MUSIC FOR A ROYAL OCCASION

Boston Herald (Keith Powers)
"A nearly sold-out Symphony Hall showed that audiences appreciate what H&H does best – the Baroque repertory."

HANDEL'S MESSIAH

Boston Globe (Richard Dyer)
"Saturday afternoon’s full performance... was a triumph for the chorus and orchestra and for Finney, whose direction inspired the most compelling local performance since William Christie’s a decade ago."

SILENT NIGHT: A GERMAN CHRISTMAS

Boston Herald (Keith Powers)
"Thank goodness that Grant Llewellyn and the Handel and Haydn Society are around to remind us that holiday season can offer meaningful performances, as H&H showed with a gorgeous program of early German music..."

CLASSICAL VALENTINE

Boston Globe (Richard Dyer)
"Both symphonies were lively, well played, and entertaining."

Boston Herald (T.J. Medrek)
"…Llewellyn managed a perfect balance between orchestra and soloist that left me thinking this was one of the best H&H concerto performances in memory."

"Llewellyn always brings a physicality to his work, his smooth, confident moves on the podium translating into hair-raising musical electricity that is far from static, and that’s what happened here."

HOGWOOD AND HAYDN

Boston Globe (David Weiniger)
“The Handel and Haydn strings played luminously…”

"Here Hogwood and the orchestra achieved a sound that was delicate and chill-inducing.”

HANDEL'S FAVORITE SOPRANOS

Boston Globe (Richard Dyer)
“Violinist Daniel Stepner and flutist Christopher Krueger duetted nimbly, and one o the encores was the organ movement from [Handel’s Concerto Grosso, Op. 3], played with charming articulation and dancing rhythm by Michael Beattie.”

Boston Herald (Keith Powers)
“The Handel and Haydn Society[‘s] presentation... was modest, circumspect – and loaded with musical value.”

“Conductor Grant Llewellyn opened the second half with a late concerto grosso that offered a gorgeous duet for the ensemble twosome of concertmaster Daniel Stepner and flutist Christopher Krueger.”

BRAHMS' REQUIEM

Boston Herald (Keith Powers)
“The Handel and Haydn chorus was thrilling."

Read critical acclaim from the:
2007-2008 Season;
2006-2007 Season;
2005-2006 Season;
2003-2004 Season;
2002-2003 Season;
2001-2002 Season.

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