H&H's next two programs will celebrate the holiday season. Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 at Symphony Hall, Harry Christophers will conduct the Society's orchestra and choir in Handel's Messiah, while on Dec. 16 and 19 at Jordan Hall, Llewellyn will lead Parts One, Two and Three of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
Following a Christmas-New Year's break, the Society will perform a program just about every second week until its season ends in April:
- Jan. 11 and 13, Jordan Hall: Philip Pickett conducts selected scenes from Handel's Acis and Galatea, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, John Blow's Venus and Adonis and Thomas Linley's A Shakespeare Ode. Soprano Nathalie Paulin and baritone Jason Grant are soloists; dramatic scenes will be staged by the Huntington Theatre Company.
- Jan. 25 and 27, Symphony Hall: Roger Norrington, the Society's Artistic Advisor, conducts Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 4, and suites from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Rameau's Les Bor_ades.
- Feb. 15-17, Symphony Hall: an all-Mozart program, with John Nelson conducting the Requiem, Ave verum corpus and Symphony No. 39.
- Mar. 7 and 9, Symphony Hall: H&H Conductor Laureate Christopher Hogwood conducts a symphony and a horn concerto each by Mozart and Haydn; the soloist, playing natural horn, is Boston Symphony principal horn James Sommerville.
- Mar. 21 and 23, Jordan Hall: Daniel Stepner, H&H concertmaster, leads Italian Baroque concertos by Corelli, Vivaldi and Locatelli from the first violin desk; soprano Dominique Labelle joins the ensemble for Handel's cantata Il delirio amoroso.
- Apr. 4 and 6, Symphony Hall: To close the H&H season, Norrington conducts Haydn's Symphony No. 44 ("Trauer") and "Harmoniemesse".
For information on the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, visit www.handelandhaydn.org.
