Dettingen Te Deum – Georg Friedrich Handel
Nelson-Messe – Joseph Haydn
The concert is conducted by Patrick van der Linden, who has been affiliated with the Haags Toonkunstkoor since January 1, 2019 as conductor and artistic director.
The Promenade Orchestra
Varvara Tishina – soprano
Marie Anne Jacobs – contralto
Erik Slik – tenor
Hans Christian Hinz – bass
The Birth of British Music can be attributed almost exclusively to the great German-speaking composers Handel and Haydn.
The Dettingen Te Deum is a public musical tribute celebrating King George II's victory over the French armies in the 1743 Battle of Dettingen. Solo and choral parts alternate in a martial and jubilant sound and culminate in a resounding final chorus.
Haydn's Nelson Messe is counted among his mature works echoing his Londoner Symphonies. Solo and choral parts do not alternate, but form a symbiosis together. Originally (1798) commissioned by the Esterhazy's, this mass, in euphoria after Napoleon's first defeat on the Nile, was soon named after the British victor Admiral Nelson. The Gloria from this mass sounds unforgettably festive.
In the autumn, the thirty-eighth lustrum of the Haags Toonkunstkoor will be devoted to Mozart's great festive choral works.
