2020-21 Season
Oct 16, 2020 Update
Symphony Hall will be closed to audiences through May 2021. Given this and the ongoing health directives from the Governor’s and Mayor’s offices, H+H is moving the rest of its season online. We look forward to resuming live, in-person performances as soon as it is permissible to do so. Learn more here.
Until then, H+H plans an active schedule of performances you can enjoy at home. Click here to learn more about all our streaming concerts.
HANDEL MESSIAH
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Harry Christophers lends his special touch to the last Messiah of his brilliant 12-year tenure as H+H’s artistic director—a not-to-be-missed occasion. The masterpiece comes alive for the 167th...
BACH CHRISTMAS
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What a perfect holiday gift: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio! H+H gives you this beautiful present, vividly realized by our period instrument orchestra, led by Maestra Laurence Equilbey, star...
HAYDN + MOZART
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You’ll be wowed hearing Haydn’s Drum Roll Symphony performed “the H+H way”—sounding fresh and authentic as it did on the day of its premiere, starting with that dramatic...
MOZART GREAT MASS
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Mozart’s aptly-named Great Mass, composed for his wife Constanze but tragically left unfinished on his death, highlights this evening of sublimely spiritual music, opening and closing with a capella...
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 7
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Experience the wild abandon of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony—“the apotheosis of the dance itself,” Wagner called it. It fairly whirls with exuberance and energy when H+H musicians perform it...
HANDEL ISRAEL IN EGYPT
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Harry Christophers and the H+H Orchestra and Chorus were made to tell this epic story of the Jewish people held captive. Our artists authentically realize Handel’s genius for...
HAYDN THE CREATION
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This performance of Haydn’s exalted choral masterpiece sets a crown upon the Harry Christophers era. The Creation’s miraculous overture plunges us into Chaos—formless and mysterious. Suddenly, we are...
BRAHMS A GERMAN REQUIEM
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Clara Schumann, close friend of Brahms, opens our 206th season with this sublimely contemplative gem for a capella chorus (an H+H premiere). Then it’s Brahms’s choral masterpiece, unsurpassed in...
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BACH + VIVALDI GLORIA
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Savor music performed with renewed vitality by the H+H Orchestra. The Ouverture of J.S.’s buoyant Orchestral Suite No. 1 leads into a set of elegant dances, while C.P.E.‘s ecstatic...