The Boston Globe: Handel and Haydn B Minor Mass
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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The Boston Musical Intelligencer: H + H + Brahms?
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 …
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer: H+H+Christophers Synched Haydn, Enlightened
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 …
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