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British Quartet--performs works by Haydn, Bartok, and Beethoven. MIT, Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass Ave., Cambridge. Friday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Free...
...dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is the boy prodigy; Beethoven, the tormented, deaf visionary; Bach the obscure wigged fellow who wrote that neat organ piece they play in horror flicks. In the same vein, Joseph Haydn is remembered as the long-lived "Father of the Symphony" who also penned the great oratorios "The Seasons" and "The Creation. "Yet Haydn's vocal works display a variety that challenges the preconceived notions. Haydn, despite his reputation, was a master of many genres...
Among the less remembered of Haydn's vocal works are the intimate English Canzonettas, simple setting of poems by Anne Hunter that prefigure the great lieder of Schubert and his contemporaries, and the cantata "Arianna a Naxos". These are coupled on a revelatory new disc from Virgin Classics' Veritas line (number 91215), with mezzosoprano Carolyn Watkinson and Glen Wilson at the fortepiano...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--performs Haydn's Symphony No. 86 and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. Thursday...
...Handel & Haydn Society and Modern Jazz Quartet--perform Bach variations. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. Friday...