Handel's Messiah

For centuries, Christmas has been synonymous with Handel’s Messiah. There can be few works more uplifting and more thought-provoking. Handel composed his Messiah during a personally difficult time in his life and took a mere 24 days to complete the incredible work. The three sections, Prophecy and Fulfilment, Suffering and Redemption, tell the story of Jesus Christ’s Nativity, Passion, Resurrection and Ascension, and contain some of the best known and best loved choruses in the choral canon.

Following on from the great success of the May concert, where the choir presented Beethoven’s Mass in C, Wendover Choral Society will again be welcoming superb young soloists from the Royal Academy of Music. The choir is also very excited to be working with musicians from the famed Brook Street Band, ‘one of the country’s foremost interpreters of Handel’s music’. Music Director, Peter Bassano, will be conducting the gathered musicians in what is sure to be a wonderful concert.

Rehearsals are well under way and the choir is sounding in fine voice. Wendover Choral Society is delighted to be presenting Handel’s great oratorio on Saturday 3 December and is very much hoping that they’ll need to repeat the request, issued at the 1742 premiere of the work in Dublin, for ladies to wear dresses ‘without hoops’ to make room for a greater audience!

For tickets and information contact: wendoverchoral@gmail.com. See advert page 5

Rehearsal