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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!