Messiah's second coming at Boston Baroque
Photo: Steve Dunwell.Now that we are reaching the actual Christmas holidays themselves, Messiah season is coming to a close. As usual, its two peaks were performances by the Handel and Haydn Society and Martin Pearlman's Boston Baroque, which pioneered the period music rendition of the piece some thirty years ago, and now reprised it to a passionately loyal crowd in Jordan Hall last weekend (in previous years, …