Album Description
The Handel and Haydn Society celebrates Haydn with a dazzling pairing of two of the composer’s masterpieces. In one of his final performances as Artistic Director of the Society, Harry Christophers leads the ensemble and a stellar cast of soloists in Haydn’s monumental ‘Theresienmesse’ (Mass in B-flat major - Hob.XXII:12) and his Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major (Hob.I:103) the ‘Drumroll’ - one of Haydn’s twelve ‘London’ symphonies composed between 1791 and 1795 when London was the indisputable musical capital of Europe.
Artists
Mary Bevan soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Budd tenor
Sumner Thompson baritone
Handel and Haydn Society
Harry Christophers
Track Listing:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 103 in E flat major ‘Drumroll’, Hob.I:103
1. Adagio – Allegro con spirito
2. Andante più tosto Allegretto
3. Menuetto & Trio
4. Finale: Allegro con spirito
Mass in B flat major ‘Theresienmesse’, Hob.XXII:12
5. Kyrie
6. Gloria in excelsis deo
7. Gratias agimus tibi
8. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
9. Credo in unum Deum
10. Et incarnatus est
11. Et resurrexit
12. Sanctus
13. Benedictus
14. Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi
15. Dona nobis pacem
Total running time: 73.46
