Event Category: Forthcoming

Handel’s majestic 1739 oratorio

Warwick Square, London SW1V 2AD
Tickets £25 (concessions £20).
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Handel’s choral showpiece Israel in Egypt was for many years second only to Messiah in popularity, owing no doubt to the dramatic choral and solo writing characteristic of a supreme master of the stage. Plagues of flies, frogs, hailstones, locusts and blisters; the parting of the Red Sea; and the Israelites’ miraculous escape as the Pharaoh’s horsemen and chariots are ‘thrown into the sea’. Truly a biblical epic not to be missed!

Elgar’s masterpiece in its 125th year


Smith Square Hall, London SW1P 3HA
Tickets £35, £25, £15 with concessions for students and the registered unemployed.
Available from the Sinfonia Smith Square Box Office.
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Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Elwin (tenor)
Gareth Brynmor John (bass)
 
 
 
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To celebrate 25 years as musical director of the Elysian Singers, Sam Laughton has chosen Edward Elgar’s crowning achievement, his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, a setting of a poem by Cardinal John Newman. And this concert takes place almost precisely 125 years after the Birmingham première on 3 October 1900.
The work opens with an old man praying with his friends as he faces his imminent death, and thereafter traces his soul’s journey, accompanied by his guardian angel, to the moment that he faces God himself, in a shattering moment of revelation. In the famous final farewell, the angel gently guides Gerontius to the soothing lake of purgatory, to await his final journey to paradise.
An extraordinarily deeply felt and expressive work in romantic style for three soloists, large chorus and orchestra, which Elgar said was ‘the best of me’.

Classic anthems old and new

Hampden Rd, Great Hampden, Great Missenden HP16 9RD

Gibbons: O clap your hands
Byrd: Domine, quis habitat
Blow: Salvator mundi
Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Naylor: Vox dicentis: Clama
Parry: Lord, let me know thine end
Harris: Faire is the heaven
Howells: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks
Bob Chilcott: The Bread of Life: Our Father
Philip Stopford: Ave regina caelorum