Maestro primed for a baton change Aug 26, 2008
Enthusiasm for the appearances of Yannick Nezet-Seguin will be rewarded with a return visit during which he will conduct Bruckner, Haydn, Saint-Saens and Shostakovich ... Six symphonies by Haydn, four keyboard sonatas (on fortepiano) and four performances of his oratorio, The Creation, directed by Martin Haselbock, will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death ... The Creation: Haydn's Choral Masterpiece December 9-12. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Did Beethoven die of lead poisoning... Aug 23, 2008
In Vienna, he took lessons from Haydn and other prominent artistes. Beethoven was quickly establishing himself as a remarkable keyboard-player and original composer. (Suite101.com)
Confessions of a toy boy Aug 21, 2008
"I like to think that being happy, being joyous, being playful still has a place in music. Because it did to Haydn and Mozart," he says ... He segues from talking about Mozart and Haydn to describing one of the more esoteric musical genres one of his students specialises in: Japanese noise music. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Air This Week Aug 19, 2008
9 p.m. Daedalus String Quartet: Haydn SQ Op. 20/6, Shostakovich SQ 3, Brahms Clarinet Quintet (David Schifrin) (WQXR). (Boston Globe)
In Britain, a storm over prospects of a lost vibrato Aug 14, 2008
He and other period-performance evangelists moved from the Baroque through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantics, and some now lap at the early 20th century, when Elgar was composing. The movement calls for the use of instruments of the day, but also different techniques: cleaner articulation, sometimes swifter tempos, clarity of texture and, of course, less vibrato. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Review: Festival Amadeus performs classically Aug 9, 2008
Festival Amadeus concludes at 8 p.m. Saturday with a concert of music by Haydn, Mozart, Puccini and Gluck at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, located at the Whitefish Middle School. Soprano Amy Pfrimmer and pianist Roger Wright will appear with the festival orchestra. (Missoulian, MT)
“Talk Radio” Aug 8, 2008
By the time he was dressed and in the kitchen, WSJO had moved on to a Haydn organ mass, and he poached two eggs to the Kyrie and toasted rye bread to the Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and cranked up the volume for the Sanctus, the polyphonic voices like two sets of waves rocking an anchored boat from two directions, and then the levitation of the Agnus Dei -- how lucky he was, praise God ... N a few months WSJO would change over from Haydn and Beethoven and Puccini to The Gay-Lesbian Parenting Hour at... (The Atlantic Online)
On the Danube: Floating Around Europe, Old and New Jul 18, 2008
And unforgettable Vienna with Schonbrunn palace seat of the 600-year Hapsburg dynasty and Haydn and the Strausses and still more Mozart. Budapest reveals the old empires second city with royal playgrounds, opera houses, and cathedrals rivaling in magnificence and antiquity first-city Viennas. (Townhall.com)
Tanglewood forges ahead without Levine Jul 16, 2008
On Sunday afternoon, Kuerti stepped in for Levine in a program that included two works - Haydn's Symphony No. 104 and Schubert's "Tragic" Symphony - plucked from this year's Symphony Hall season ... The Haydn had some stiff-jointed moments and would have benefited from a lighter touch at times, but by the finale of the Schubert, the orchestra was playing with all the requisite vigor and grace. (Boston Globe)
'London is crawling with new music' Jul 5, 2008
It's a knight's move away and is related to house music in the way a Haydn minuet might be related to music in a Viennese square. David Lynch said all his films have a scene which he calls 'the eye of a duck. (Guardian Unlimited)
Andrs Schiff has Beethoven covered Jun 27, 2008
Everywhere, Schiff hears connections - backward to Mozart and Haydn, forward to Schubert and Brahms ... Other highlights include a concert of works from the French Baroque, and a rare performance of a Requiem by Michael Haydn, Joseph's younger brother. (Boston Globe)
Critic's picks Jun 13, 2008
Sunday at Rockport, the Daedalus plays music by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Elgar, with Judith Gordon joining as guest pianist. - JEREMY EICHLER. (Boston Globe)
Mainly Mozart takes a detour into Richard Strauss Land Jun 9, 2008
Also on the roster are pieces by composers ranging from Haydn to Tchaikovsky, Liszt to Lutoslawski. And Beethoven reigns supreme on opening night, when pianist John Lill joins Atherton and the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra in performing all five of Beethoven's piano concertos at the Balboa. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
In good hands: John Lill lets Beethoven's concertos carry the day Jun 6, 2008
Though Lill's repertoire is diverse he'll perform works by Mozart, Haydn, Schumann and Liszt during his Balboa Theatre recital on June 13 Beethoven holds a special place. I've always had a tremendous sympathy and fondness for his music, says the virtuoso. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
REVIEW: St. Paul orchestra wows crowd at Beethoven fest preview May 24, 2008
The orchestra opened with a beautiful performance of Haydn s Clock symphony, which showcased the precision and virtuosity of the orchestra. The musicians were directed brilliantly by a young conductor, Jayce Ogren, a St. Olaf College graduate and now an assistant conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Music review: Chanticleer at the missions May 23, 2008
Harmonies that would have sounded familiar to Mozart or Haydn rub elbows with the springy rhythms of Renaissance dance music; a hymn setting drawn unmistakably from the world of Italian opera gives way to another based in Spanish folk song. The base for this program - assembled out of the archives by musicologist Craig H. Russell, the guiding scholar behind several of Chanticleer's other explorations of music from the New World - is the "Misa en sol" ("Mass in G") attributed to Juan Bautista... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Events listings May 18, 2008
Works by Haydn, Beethoven; premiere of Wuorinen's Piano Quartet No. 2 ... Works by Haydn, Shostakovich, Elgar ... Works by Haydn, Janacek, Grieg. (Boston Globe)
Latin class from a classical rock star May 15, 2008
"I am so fascinated by this. The essence of all music for me is folk music, the music that my grandmother sang playing her mandolin. That's what I remember from when I was a kid In fact, that's the root of everything that we know from the beginning of time, through the great composers Bach, Haydn and Beethoven.". Jarvi will share the stage with Carel Kraayenhof, the acclaimed bandeonista who will perform Piazzolla's concerto for this difficult version of the accordion. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Music transforms kids and towns in remote area of Bolivia May 12, 2008
But on a recent evening, off the neatly manicured central plaza, the sonatas of Vivaldi and Haydn pour from the town's imposing cathedral. Even more unusual is who is crowding many of the pews: sneaker-clad youths. (Christian Science Monitor)
Chorus of Westerly presents Honegger's "King David" May 10, 2008
She was a soloist for Handel s "Dixit Dominus" and Haydn s "Lord Nelson Mass" with the Hartford Symphony and Chorale. She has also sung Mozart s Requiem with the choir of Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra. (Westerly Sun, RI)
* CLASSICAL DVD AND CD REVIEWS May 8, 2008
HAYDN String Quartets Opus 33 Quatuor Mosaiques NAIVE E8801 ... Haydn is known as the father of the symphony, but he was also the father of the string quartet ... They are some of the greatest quartets ever written, and he dedicated them to Haydn. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Mills chooses Verdi’s Requiem’ for her final concert at helm of Symphony May 8, 2008
The season opens in October with one of Haydn s London symphonies, No. 99 with E-flat Major and Gershwin s American in Paris. Mills said the November concerts feature great orchestral music from Mexico with guest conductor Eduardo Alvarez from Acapulco. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Bright colors, wide smiles for Boston Baroque May 6, 2008
Franz Josef Haydn's "The Creation" is a masterwork, but hardly foolproof; lacking the shaggy, forgiving extravagance of the Handel oratorios that inspired it, the piece can easily cross the line between epic and just plain long. But Boston Baroque's performance on Saturday avoided that pitfall with vibrant color and a fleet momentum that brought out Haydn's architecture ... Haydn's assembly of individual movements into formally balanced sections was unusually clear ... "The Creation" can soar... (Boston Globe)
Rock me, Amadeus May 2, 2008
20, no. 2 by Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in F-Major by Maurice Ravel, and String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, by Ludwig van Beethoven. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Mendelssohn Choir Apr 20, 2008
Among these are the Bach Choir of Bethlehem (founded in 1898), the Singers' Club of Cleveland (1891), the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia (1874), the May Festival Chorus (1873) and the Handel and Haydn Society (1815). "If you are 100 years old, clearly you have weathered a number of transitions in leadership, economics and public taste," says Meier Baker. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Nakamatsu returns to Auburn for Adams series Apr 18, 2008
Nakamatsu will also perform solo pieces by composing giants Haydn and Chopin. But the most interesting piece, he said, is Papillons by Robert Schumann. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Parker Quartet makes classical kid-friendly Apr 13, 2008
The Parker Quartet's approach to programming for kids includes playing the music of Haydn and Gyorgy Kurtag ... It includes a few movements of Haydn, but it will also feature a series of "Moments Musicaux" by Gyorgy Kurtag, a contemporary Hungarian composer whose tense, volatile music may well give some parents pause when it appears on one of their own subscription concerts. (Boston Globe)
Charity in spin at music donation Apr 11, 2008
The collection itself covers every genre of classical music, from Bach and Haydn to modern composers including Cage and Reich. It also features rare recordings of Indian classical music and sitar music. (BBC News)
Record classical music donation leaves Oxfam spinning Apr 9, 2008
The music spans the ages, from Mozart and Haydn to Stravinsky and Ligeti. "When I looked at the records they looked virtually unplayed," said Hyde. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Placido Domingo comes back to Boston Apr 6, 2008
A clipping from Dec. 11, 1965, reveals that Domingo sang the tenor solos in "Messiah" with the Handel and Haydn Society. In his review, the Globe's Michael Steinberg wrote: "Domingo has an unusually handsome voice and apparently considerable musicianship and technique." But he was "riveted so closely to his score that he seemed to be finding out about 'Messiah' one eighth note at a time." The Herald's critic noted that he sang "with intensity, but after a time [. . .] showed a tendency to become... (Boston Globe)
[REVIEW] LSO, chorus deliver wonderful performance Mar 31, 2008
On second attempt they might mention the Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn, but more likely there would be a moment of confusion, a small frown and a shrug or a smile as they conjured up a suitable name or drew a blank. Messiah, with its yearly performances throughout the world, its chorus, orchestra and cast of soloists, is the 800-pound gorilla on the block, and serves as one model of works for chorus and orchestra. (Lima News, OH)
Concert offers a tribute to music of 'A Shropshire Lad' Mar 28, 2008
Having canceled her appearances last weekend with the Handel and Haydn Society because of illness, soprano Dominique Labelle has also withdrawn from this weekend's concerts in Emmanuel Music's Schumann series. She was to have sung Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. (Boston Globe)
H&H led fluently by one of its own Mar 26, 2008
He can be spotted, depending on the day, in the first violin chair of the Lydian String Quartet, or as the calm, grounding presence at the front of the first violin section of the Handel and Haydn Society, where he has been concertmaster for more than two decades ... Handel and Haydn Society. (Boston Globe)
All the Best Mar 26, 2008
The highly acclaimed young ensemble performs Haydn s Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4; Benjamin Britten s Quartet No. 3 Op. (Pearland Journal, TX)
At 79, Haitink gets his first taste of 'Passion' Mar 21, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Famous piano trio tunes it up Mar 21, 2008
Media Credit: Denise HofmannThe Florestan Trio, considered by many critics one of the finest piano trios in the world, performed a program of Haydn, Ives and Brahms ... The hour and a half concert consisted of works by Haydn, Ives and Brahms. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Campus Calendar Mar 19, 2008
Friday and SundayItalian virtuosi Daniel Stepner directs principal players from the Handel and Haydn Society Period-Instrument Orchestra and soprano Dominique Labelle in performances of Corelli's "Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 3," Vivaldi's "Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon," Locatelli's "Concerto Grosso, Op. 7, No. 6," and Handel's "Cantata, 'Delirio Amoroso.' " "The chief characteristic of the [classical concerto form]," Stepner says, "is the alternation of soloists and full string orchestra... (Boston Globe)
Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society Mar 9, 2008
Imani Winds will perform works by Husa, Ligeti, Piazzolla; the Jupiter Quartet will offer Haydn and Beethoven, Shostakovich and Gubaidulina; and the Ysaye Quartet (the lone non-domestic quartet) will present Faure, Bartok and Franck. But the star of the season is an American quartet situated in the prime of its artistic life: the Pacifica Quartet. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Mar 6, 2008
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Haydn s The Seven Last Words of Christ 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 A string quartet will play the Holy Week concert, which will include brief spoken meditations prefacing each movement. Speakers will include: Rev. T.L. Barrett, pastor of Life Center Church of God in Christ; Rev. Willie Barrow, co-chairperson of Rainbow-PUSH Coalition; Rev. John Buchanan, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago; Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor in... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
S.F. Symphony Sked Mar 6, 2008
Haydn: Symphony No. 60, "Il distratto"; Barber: "Knoxville, Summer of 1915"; Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ... Haydn: Symphony No. 52; Thomas Ads: Violin Concerto ("Concentric Paths"); Mozart: Symphony No. 39 ... Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat for Violin, Cello, Oboe and Bassoon; Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat, K. 361 (370a), "Gran Partita.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Benefits of Music for Infants Feb 16, 2008
Haydn Cello Concerto, 2nd Movement. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, 2nd Movement. (Suite101.com)
String quartets at Jordan Hall Feb 15, 2008
John Nelson leads the Handel and Haydn Society in the first of three Symphony Hall performances of Mozart's Requiem and other works. and Opera Providence performs Scott Joplin's folk opera "Treemonisha" at the Columbus Theatre in Providence. (Boston Globe)
Wiilliam Bolcom's 'Octet' to get Hub premiere Feb 15, 2008
The Handel and Haydn Society has announced its 2008-9 season, which will feature tributes to its namesakes, Handel and Haydn. Both composers have milestone years in 2009, which marks the 250th anniversary of Handel's death and the 200th of Haydn's ... Principal conductor Grant Llewellyn conducts two programs, including a performance of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade in May. (Boston Globe)
PSO's '08 schedule heavy on Viennese compositions Feb 10, 2008
The PSO announced today that its incoming music director, Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, will begin the season with Mahler's Symphony No. 1, "Titan," and end it with the Viennese composer's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection." In between, Honeck will offer even more music written in Vienna -- where the conductor moved when he was about 10 years old -- including works by Brahms, Beethoven, Bruckner, Mozart and Johann and Richard Strauss, in addition to music by Haydn, Orff and Dvorak ... Honeck... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
PSO's Honeck revisits musical home as orchestra plays Vienna Feb 3, 2008
Haydn sang in its spectacular St. Stephen's Cathedral as a boy and returned to forge a career as the first independent composer. Mozart composed "The Marriage of Figaro," the Requiem and "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" here. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Community orchestra celebrates 25 years Jan 31, 2008
Two works by Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) will be performed at the concert. They are the London Symphony in D major and the overture to the somewhat obscure Haydn opera to "Il mundo della luna.". (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
A rich interpretation of Baroque favorites by Handel and Haydn Society Jan 29, 2008
On paper, Friday's Handel and Haydn Society program looked like a Baroque version of a Pops concert: Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" and the third suite from "Water Music," Bach's Third Orchestral Suite, and a sequence of orchestral music from Purcell's opera "The Fairy Queen." Yet what at first glance promised only a hit parade of familiar favorites wound up delivering a richer than expected, multidimensional portrait of the Baroque ... Handel and Haydn Society. (Boston Globe)
Public Radio Jan 19, 2008
Brahms: Haydn Variations; Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3 ... 131; Haydn: Nocturne No. 6 in G-Major ... 6; Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 4 in G-Major; Bizet: Symphony in C. (Montana Standard, MT)
Local jazz virtuoso's classical work to premiere Jan 17, 2008
Lenski was a founding member and first violinist of the acclaimed Angeles String Quartet, which toured in the U.S.and abroad, recorded the complete string quartets of Joseph Haydn for Philips Classics and won the 2001 classical chamber music Grammy Award. Performances are on Saturday, January 26, 8 p.m., at a residence in Encino (address given to ticket buyers); Sunday, Jan. 27, 4 p.m., at The Neighborhood Church in Pasadena; and Tuesday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m., at The UCLA Faculty Center. (Los Angeles Daily News)
Exploration of words and music proves wholly entertaining Jan 14, 2008
Friday's offering by the Handel and Haydn Society at Jordan Hall was a lively and original combination of English words and music from the late 17th and early 18th centuries - a period of delightful symbiosis that has rarely, if ever, occurred since ... Let's hope the Handel-Haydn-Huntington collaboration continues. (Boston Globe)
Boston arts groups are dying to be heard Jan 12, 2008
Robert Couture, principal trombonist at Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, and Handel and Haydn Society, was provoked by the report to talk about his ideas with colleagues in the music world. For years, he has felt that Boston's ballet and opera companies need to band together to build a proper performance space that they could control. (Boston Globe)
A double dose of Strauss... with pinches of Wagner and Beethoven Jan 12, 2008
Another Viennese resident, Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827), who was born in Bonn, Germany, knew both Mozart and Haydn. His works show Beethoven s desire to push at the boundaries of conventional compositional technique, writes a musicologist, to expand sonata form, and to infuse his work with unheardof drama and passion. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Last night a cellist saved my life Jan 10, 2008
At Kuss Plus, for example, a string quartet recently played works by Haydn, John Dowland and Thomas Ad;s. Is Canisius worried. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Critics' picks - classical music Jan 7, 2008
Handel and Haydn Society. H&H tries something a bit different as Philip Pickett leads music by Handel, Purcell, Blow, and Linley, interspersed with dramatic readings. (Boston Globe)
Boston goes Hollywood, theaters face changes Dec 30, 2007
Marie-H l ne Bernard arrived at the Handel and Haydn Society, replacing longtime executive director Mary Deissler. Janice Mancini Del Sesto announced she would step down as Boston Lyric Opera's general director in 2009. (Boston Globe)
The Air This Week Dec 25, 2007
1:30 p.m. William Christie/Les Arts Florissants: Haydn "Die Schoepfung" (Austrian Radio). 2 p.m. Jazz Profiles/Nancy Wilson (WICN: ). (Boston Globe)
Ring the bells| Dec 24, 2007
Each choir is named after a composer with close links to the ensemble whose roots stretch back to 1498: Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Bruckner. Austria's national tourist board recently decided to market them as the world's "oldest boy group", a label that the choir itself is uncomfortable with. (iAfrica.com)
* Classics for Christmas. And why not? Dec 21, 2007
It was the era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, all working in or near Vienna. It was a time when musical forms reached a perfection they'd been struggling towards for centuries, and which they afterwards fell away from. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Finding Himself In Music Dec 9, 2007
Jen is on a 15-city tour of Germany with the Haydn Choir, one of four 25-member ensembles that comprise the Vienna Boys Choir ... As the sole nonwhite member of the Haydn Choir, Jens' complexion can stand out onstage in Vienna and on tour ... In March, after a concert by the touring Haydn Choir in Saratoga, Jens had his audition. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rap meets Bach at the iPod Philharmonic Dec 8, 2007
But it's Hong's gusto for improvisational jazz (he's learning with the help of violinist-singer-songwriter Lili Haydn) that distinguishes him most among his peers. "I've focused so much on interpreting the great composers' music for so long," said Hong, who appeared at a recent Casual Friday performance wearing a leather hoodie. (Los Angeles Times)
High school choir heading to land of Mozart Dec 7, 2007
The International Haydn Festival in Vienna, Austria the world's largest music festival will welcome Wyandotte Roosevelt High School's A Capella Choir and its director, Kathleen Kane, in 2009 ... In 2009, the festival will celebrate the bicentenary anniversary of composer Franz Joseph Haydn's death ... A series of 17 concerts featuring Haydn's works is scheduled for orchestra, chorus and soloists. (The News-Herald)
Astounding 'Metaporphosen' gives performance its spiritual high Dec 5, 2007
Haydn's "Little Organ" Mass is a compact Mass setting, including a one-minute "Gloria" and a "Credo" that covers the essentials of Christian affirmation in less than five. Even more noteworthy is Haydn's ability to pack so many marks of his genius into so compressed a space ... Coro Allegro, soprano Jessica Tarnish, and organist Nathan Zullinger were able partners in the Haydn. (Boston Globe)
Atheism Back in Court Again Dec 4, 2007
Goodbye to many of the great works of Bach, Haydn, Handel, Beethoven and Mozart ... Goodbye to many of the great works of Bach, Haydn, Handel, Beethoven and Mozart. (Townhall.com)
British conductor's 'Messiah' is revelation at Handel & Haydn Dec 3, 2007
Harry Christophers, the leader of the early music vocal ensemble The Sixteen, was this year's guest conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society's annual performances at Symphony Hall ... Handel and Haydn Society. (Boston Globe)
Christophers leads H & H in 'Messiah' Dec 2, 2007
Handel and Haydn Society ... 617-266-3605, handelandhaydn. (Boston Globe)
