Messiah

Monday 11 December 2023

Olivier Hall, St Edward’s School, 19:00

Handel Messiah, HWV 56

Harriet Burns soprano

Rebecca Leggett mezzo-soprano

Nick Pritchard tenor

James Atkinson baritone

Christ Church Cathedral Choir

Steven Grahl conductor

Even for a composer who tended to work quickly, Handel found himself in the grip of total inspiration when he came to write Messiah in the summer of 1741. ‘The power of the musical imagination, the wealth of ideas, the depth of inspiration, and the variety of invention continue to astonish,’ concluded the late Handel scholar Clifford Bartlett. Generations have concurred, and Messiah has held audiences awestruck for three centuries. In the striking architecture of the Olivier Hall at St Edward’s School, Steven Grahl of Christ Church conducts the orchestra and his own choir in a performance of Messiah – a Christmas essential not to be missed.

Tickets £54 £40 £30 £18 (students from £5)