Reviews

The chamber music concert Sunday at Gardner Museum’s Calderwood Hall featured eight members of Handel and Haydn Society in two major works one doesn’t generally associate with this group: Brahms’s Trio for Horn (or cello), Violin and Piano, Op. 40 (1865) and his Sextet in G Major Op. 36 for two violins, two violas and …

by David Patterson “This aperiodic visitor to live period instrument music-making found much to take in. The Handel and Haydn Society’s Sunday Symphony Hall outing with Harry Christophers definitely encouraged future visits—for more Haydn, especially. Thirty-eight symphonies apart, Nos. 49 and 87 offered thriving real-time, real-space illustrations of evolution. Earlier and later Haydn resounded. Mozart’s …

Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata (Coro) Is there room for another set of recordings of Beethoven’s Op. 30 violin sonatas? Certainly, when performed with the buoyancy and rhythmic acuity with which violinist Ogata and keyboardist Watson, both of the Handel and Haydn Society, infuse them. The drama underpinning the C-minor Sonata and the effortless charm …