Handel’s oratorios, which recast tales of heroic deeds for eighteenth-century English audiences, are products of their time and place. But his Hercules offers a dire warning that still manages to speak across the centuries: Jealousy will drive you mad. Friday night at Symphony Hall, the Handel and Haydn Society and its conductor, Harry Christophers, offered …
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[Boston, MA – April 20, 2018] The Handel and Haydn Society has announced that Debra Nagy has won its Principal Oboe position, effective July 1, 2018. Nagy was selected by a committee following a series of auditions. H+H is noted for performing Baroque and Classical music on period instruments. In its search for a new …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Callanan, Callanan & Klein Communications erin@callananklein.com l 617.431.1171 HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY TO PERFORM HANDEL’S HERCULES Friday, May 4, 2018 Sunday, May 6, 2018 Grammy™ Award-Winning Bass Baritone Jonathan Lemalu Joins as Featured Soloist [Boston, MA – April 2018] Grammy Award winner Jonathan Lemalu, one of New Zealand’s most internationally …
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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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