Performer: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

Led by concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky, the compact group of H&H musicians restored these works to their whimsical “party hearty” roots.

Woody's Suite for String Orchestra adroitly transformed charming songs by the 18th-century writer, politician and abolitionist Charles Ignatius Sancho into Baroque dances.

Bezuidenhout and the Handel and Haydn Society offer the Boston audience an entirely different sound world where the music sings in a new voice.