Word: haydn
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...Sunday October 26, the Handel and Haydn Society, under the direction of Christopher Hogwood, presented the second of two performances of their season opener, Handel's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato. This 1740 work combines excerpts from two Milton poems, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, with original poetry by Handel's librettist Charles Jennens, the Il Moderato, set to what is essentially orchestral accompaniment...
...production also makes excellent use of background music--evoking besottedness, melancholy, celebration, or uneasy anticipation. The soundtrack ranges from Haydn to Tom Waits to the Pet Shop Boys...
Sunny and pleasing music continued in the second half of the program, which featured Josefowicz as the soloist in Haydn's first violin concerto. Since she has a technique that can handle the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos, Josefowicz was not troubled by the simpler Haydn and focused on achieving beauty of tone. She made even spiccato bowings sound lovely. Her upper register was uniformly pure, and she was better than before at blending; she and Laredo made a good team...
...titled "A Classical Valentine." In fact, it was difficult, at a first glance of the program, to take the concert seriously at all, filled as it was with popular, nearly cliched pieces; such a program qualifies as musical overindulgence. Yet, in their concert on Sunday, the Handel & Haydn Society gave a spectacular performance, only confirming the words of Mae West: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful...
...Handel & Haydn Society, founded in Boston in 1815, is the United States' oldest continuing performing arts ensemble. Since then, H&H has broadened the American performance repertoire by premiering such popular pieces as Handel's Messiah in 1818 (they have performed it annually since 1854), Bach's Mass in B Minor and Verdi's Requiem. Aside from making history, H&H has taken interesting steps in actually bridging musical history, bringing the idea of a "historically informed performance" to Boston audiences since 1986 when the orchestra fell under the artistic direction of Christopher Hogwood. The objective of historically informed performance...