Handel & Haydn
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor- Sunday, January 29, 7:30 pm
- First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38 - Monday, January 30, 7:30 pm
- Harris Theater, Chicago
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
Free pre-concert lectures by Peter Van De Graaff will take place before each concert. Lectures begin at 6:30 pm in the church, and at 6 pm in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Randolph Café before Harris Theater concerts.
This concert will be broadcast on WFMT on March 9, 2012.
Program
- F. J. HAYDN
- Symphony No. 31 in D Major (Horn Signal)
- HANDEL
- Concerto a due cori in F Major (Judas Maccabaeus)
- Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 5
- F. J. HAYDN
- Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major
Hear the Music
- F. J. Haydn
- “Symphony in D Major (Horn Signal), mvt 1”
- Handel
- “Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334, mvt 2”
- “Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 05”
- F. J. Haydn
- “Symphony No. 98 in B Flat Major, mvt 4”
Music of the Baroque’s brilliant horn players sparkle in exuberant music for orchestra. Nicholas Kraemer, hailed by Chicago Classical Review as “a marvelous Haydn conductor,” leads an inventive program highlighting the wit and elegance that prompted Mozart to say, “Haydn alone has the secret of both making me smile and touching my soul."
PROGRAM NOTES
Although Franz Joseph Haydn didn’t invent the symphony, he has long been known as its “father”—an appellation bestowed at least in part because… Download pdf »
Recommended Recordings
- Haydn, Symphony No. 31 in D Major (Horn Signal)
- Nicholas Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien (Archiv)
- Handel, Concerto a due cori in F Major (Judas Maccabaeus)
- Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music (L’Oiseau Lyre)
- Handel, Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 5
- Andrew Manze, Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi)
- Haydn, Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major
- Sir Colin Davis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Philips)
