Haydn: Symphony No.100 / Nelson Mass Vocal & Song Coro Records

Haydn: Symphony No.100 / Nelson Mass

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CO 6181

Haydn: Symphony No.100 / Nelson Mass

Label Catalogue Number:
COR16181

Running Time: 64:42

Release Date: November 2020
Originally recorded in 2020

Composer
Franz Joseph Haydn

Solo soprano
Mary Bevan

Mezzo Voice mezzo-soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Solo tenor
Jeremy Budd

Solo baritone
Sumner Thompson

Orchestra
Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

Conductor
Harry Christophers

Engineer
James Donahue

Engineer assistants
Nick Squire & Joel Watts

Venue 24 & 26 January 2020
Symphony Hall, Boston, USA

Genre:
Vocal & Song

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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Symphony No.100 in G major, 'Military', Hob.I:100

Adagio - Allegro

8:02

Allegretto

5:25

Menuet & Trio: Moderato

5:44

Finale: Presto

5:35

Missa in angustiis, 'Nelson Mass', Hob.XXII:11

Kyrie

4:57

Gloria in excelsis deo

3:46

Qui tollis

4:15

Quoniam tu solus sanctus

3:00

Credo in unum Deum

1:37

10.

Et incarnatus est

4:09

11.

Et resurrexit

3:55

12.

Sanctus

2:20

13.

Benedictus

6:19

14.

Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi

2:47

15.

Dona nobis pacem

2:51

Total time: 64:42

Solo: Mary Bevan soprano

Solo: Jeremy Budd tenor

Solo: Sumner Thompson baritone

Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

Conductor: Harry Christophers

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Reviews

“This is an interesting coupling of two works with connections to war… Both works are very nicely done by Christophers and his Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society. The orchestra plays period instruments, but the playing is buoyant and graceful, never harsh…The symphony is played with brisk tempos, but nothing sounds rushed or pushed… The Mass is also satisfying. Christophers, who has a long history of choral work The Sixteen, has a fine chorus and soloists here… The recording, made in Symphony Hall, is first rate…”

Paul L Althouse – American Record Guide – May/June 2021

“Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston present a neatly turned-out Military Symphony … It’s a performance that impresses rather than exhilarates – until, that is, the Turkish percussion make their entrance in the slow movement...It’s a terrific sound that gives most other Military Symphonies a run for their money… The coupling in concert and on disc is the best-known of Haydn’s Masses, the so-called Nelson, with a conspicuously well-drilled chorus, brimming with confidence and never for a moment caught out by Haydn’s challenging writing…”

David Threasher - Gramophone Magazine - December 2020

“… Both pieces are performed with great vigour and urgency. However, this energy is not exaggerated. As is usual with the recordings of this ensemble, they achieve very well balanced and lively results. The four vocal soloists further enrich the performance…” *****

Uwe Krusch - Pizzicato.lu – 19 November 2020

“… the Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society’s well drilled orchestra of period instruments gives a vividly atmospheric, fresh-sounding reading of Haydn’s Symphony No 100… And Christophers’s performance of the aptly paired Nelson Mass, with soprano Mary Bevan heading an excellent quartet of vocal soloists and the Society’s chorus singing with verve and precision, is as thrillingly dramatic as it is touching.”

Stephen Pettitt – The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 15 November 2020

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