The Boston Globe, December 18th, 2001
The full house the Handel and Haydn Society drew on Sunday afternoon was proof, if any were needed, that a small-scale undertaking featuring works of less than a full evening's (or an afternoon's) duration can also exert a seasonal appeal. Jordan Hall was in effect turned into a "Messiah"-free zone. Civic virtue can take many forms, and this, surely, counted as one of them. The music turned out to be either English (William Byrd, Peter Phillips, Orlando Gibbons, Richard Dering, Henry Purcell) or French (Marc-Antoine Charpentier). Save for Charpentier's by- now ubiquitous "Messe de minuit pour ...
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