• The Gloria from Haydn’s Theresienmesse (Mass in B flat, Hob XXII:12, 1799), with its exuberant choral writing, rushing string figures, trumpets and drums, is music to raise any spirits, is just one of the splendours of this expressive work. A new recording from the Handel and Haydn Society, conducted by Harry Christophers (Coro), with soloists Mary Bevan (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Jeremy Budd (tenor) and Sumner Thompson (baritone), has all the vigour and risk you need from a live recording. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, “H+H”, now associated with historically informed performances, was founded in 1815 as an oratorio society and gave the US premieres of major choral works such as Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Creation.
