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

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“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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