Aisslinn Nosky & Handel and Haydn Society – Mozart: Violin Concertos, Vol. II (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Aisslinn Nosky & Handel and Haydn Society – Mozart: Violin Concertos, Vol. II (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:41 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

Mozart’s Violin Concertos need little introduction and are some of his most well-known and best-loved works. Despite being written when the composer was just 19 years old, they feature Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable best. Handel and Haydn Society with their inspirational Concertmaster, Aisslinn Nosky, bring Mozart’s musical magic to life in these live recordings from Boston’s glorious Symphony Hall.

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Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – The Old Colony Collection (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – The Old Colony Collection (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:33 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

Whilst the names James Kent, Charles Avison or Samuel Webbe may not be familiar to today’s listeners, 200 years ago these composers and their works were prized for their singability, their musical evocations of the text, and their beautiful sonorities. Rarely recorded, and some works never before recorded, The Old Colony Collection contains a diverse array of compositions that were sung on both sides of the Atlantic and includes anthems and ‘glees’ as well as selections from Handel’s oratorios, and arrangements of works by Mozart. The selection of works chosen for this recording features some of the finest examples from this fabulous and extensive anthology.

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Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – Haydn: The Creation (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – Haydn: The Creation (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:38:12 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Inspired by Haydn’s trips to England, where he first heard Handel’s oratorios, The Creation is widely considered Haydn’s crowning masterpiece. Set for three vocal soloists, four-part chorus, and a large Classical orchestra, there seems little doubt that Haydn wanted a big sound (by the standard of his day) for this work. Based on both the biblical Book of Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost, the oratorio was premiered in the US by the Handel and Haydn Society in 1819. Harry Christophers says: “Haydn’s music is always a joy to perform but with The Creation he excels himself allowing soloists, chorus and period orchestra to revel in vivid word painting, both vocal and instrumental. Can there be a more consistently happy work than The Creation? Feel free to smile at his genius.”

Handel and Haydn Society is America’s oldest continuously operating arts organisation. Its Bicentennial celebration began with the 2014-2015 Season and continues into the 2015-2016 Season. Harry Christophers has been Artistic Director since 2008.

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Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – Haydn Symphonies Nos. 26 & 86 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – Haydn Symphonies Nos. 26 & 86 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:09 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

Continuing their acclaimed live series on CORO, the Handel and Haydn Society presents one of Haydn’s early Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) symphonies – No. 26 in D minor. More commonly known as ‘Lamentatione’ because of its association with Easter week, Haydn incorporates an old plainsong chant ofthe Passion of Christ juxtaposing it against the furious opening theme. The later Paris Symphony No. 86, with its unusual ‘offtonic’ exposition, shows Haydn at his most inventive and expansive; richly scored it tests the performers’ skill and technique to the limit. Completing the programme is Mozart’s lively and vibrant Violin Concerto in G major performed by H+H’s inspirational Concertmaster, Aisslinn Nosky. Handel and Haydn Society is America’s oldest continuously operating arts organisation. Harry Christophers has been Artistic Director since 2008.

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Handel and Haydn Society & Harry Christophers – Haydn: Symphony No. 100 & Nelson Mass (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Handel and Haydn Society & Harry Christophers – Haydn: Symphony No. 100 & Nelson Mass (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:45 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

Experience two grand classics, alive with all the excitement and verve of their very first performances. Thrill to one of Haydn’s masterful ‘London’ symphonies that wowed England’s capital – the smash hit ‘Military’, so-called for intense depictions of the clash of arms and ferocious roar of war. In the epic Lord Nelson Mass Handel and Haydn Society’s magnificent chorus and soloists join the orchestra in this homage to the heroic admiral who helped vanquish Napoleon.

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Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – Haydn: Symphony No. 103 & Theresienmesse (Live) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers – Haydn: Symphony No. 103 & Theresienmesse (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:00 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

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, “Drumroll” – one of Haydn’s twelve “London” symphonies composed between 1791 and 1795 when London was the indisputable musical capital of Europe.

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