Category: Handel and Haydn Society

Trinity Church’s ‘Messiah’ Is Still the Gold Standard

The church’s urgent and eloquent version of Handel’s classic oratorio remains an inspired communal rite.
Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’

The New York Times – Music:
Two performances, at Trinity Church Wall Street and the New York Philharmonic, were similar yet showed how beauty emerges in divergence.
A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’

The New York Times – Music:
Raphaël Pichon has quickly become one of the most interesting conductors not just in his specialty of period instruments, but in classical music.

Trinity Church’s ‘Messiah’ Is Still the Gold Standard