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