A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
DEC 15 + 18
Overview
Our musical gift for the holidays is sure to brighten your spirits with the joy of the season: Bach’s exhilarating cantata—a partnership of soprano and solo trumpet in friendly “rivalry,” enlivened by H+H’s period instruments—ends in a spectacular fugue on the word “Alleluia”; tours-de-force for soprano Robin Johannsen: Silente Venti, in which her opening words quite literally silence turbulent instrumental forces; and a heavenly Gloria. Plus Handel’s Concerto grosso and the H+H premiere of the lively Simphonie by much-admired Bach contemporary Jan Zelenka.
Location
NEC's Jordan Hall
Dates
Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 7:30PM
Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 3:00PM
Music
Zelenka: Simphonie a 8 concertanti in a minor
Handel: Silente Venti (“Be Silent, Winds”)
Handel: Gloria for soprano and solo strings
Handel: Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 3, No. 4
J.S. Bach: Cantata 51, “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” (“Exult in God in all Lands”)
Performed by
Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Robin Johannsen, soprano
H+H Orchestra
