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Radio 3 in Concert: Haydn's Nelson Mass from Freiburg

Haydn's Nelson Mass from Freiburg

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Haydn's Nelson Mass from Freiburg

Freiburg Baroque perform Haydn's 'Nelson' Mass and 'Mourning' Symphony.

Freiburg Baroque play Haydn's Symphony No 44, 'Mourning'. They are joined by the Zurich Sing-Akademie for Haydn's Mass for troubled times, nicknamed the 'Nelson Mass'.

Haydn's 'Nelson Mass,' and Symphony no. 44, 'Mourning,' from the crack forces of the Zurich Sing-Akademie and Freiburg Baroque.

Gottfried von der Goltz conducts the period instruments of Freiburg Baroque in one of Haydn's 'Storm and Stress,' symphonies. Written in 1772, there is an apocryphal story that Haydn asked for the symphony's slow movement, with its muted strings, to be played at his funeral. That's followed by Haydn's 'Mass for troubled times,' written over a quarter of a century later. There are all sorts of suggestions for the title,' Missa in angustiis.' In 1798, Haydn's reputation may have been at its peak, but he was exhausted after supervising the Vienna performances of the Creation, and Europe was in turmoil as Napoleon’s armies waged war on Austria and threatened Vienna itself. But what Haydn did not know when he gave the mass its original title, was that on 1 August, Napoleon would be dealt a stunning defeat in the Battle of the Nile by British forces led by Admiral Horatio Nelson. News of Nelson's victory probably reached the court at Esterházy on the very day of the mass's first performance and the association with Nelson was given a further boost when, in 1800, Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton visited Esterházy and probably heard the mass performed by Haydn himself. Whatever the story, Haydn's greatest biographer describes it as "arguably Haydn's greatest single composition."

Presented by Fiona Talkington in this performance from the Konzerthaus, Freiburg im Breisgau

Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 ('Mourning')

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Interval Music: fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Haydn: Variations on 'Gott erhalte Franz, den Kaiser' in G major (after Hob.III / 77ii)

Haydn: Missa in angustiis (Mass for troubled times), in D minor, Hob. XXII:11 ('Lord Nelson')

Magdalene Harer (soprano)
Henriette Gödde (contralto)
Nikolaus Pfannkuch (tenor)
Torben Jürgens (bass-baritone)
Zurich Sing-Akademie
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)

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