Oberon and Titania may be immortal, but Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” more readily shows its age. The 1692 masque based on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has both a paper-thin plot and a score that could grow tedious in the wrong hands. Luckily for the Jordan Hall audience Friday night, the Handel and Haydn …
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“Harry Christophers’ new disc with the Handel and Haydn Society (H&H) continues their recent survey of early and late Haydn symphonies, now adding some Mozart to the mix with concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky playing the Violin Concerto no. 3… Symphonies, nos. 26 (Lamentatione) and 86… are rendered with vigor and style. The former, with its quotations …
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Handel and Haydn Society rolled out its first take on the complete Mass since 2013 on Friday evening at Symphony Hall. Artistic director Harry Christophers led with temperate gusto. To start, Andrew Clark conducted public high school students of the Collaborative Youth Concert Choruses in a lively rendition of the “Gloria” from Mozart’s Coronation Mass. …
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