Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 6 Dec 2022 will launch a new style classical music concert experience centred on the most famous works ever written. With ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...

Think this election season is full of political stunts? They have nothing on King George I. Looking to one-up his popular heir, the British monarch tapped George Frideric Handel — like King George, a ...

It's a Christmas tradition, right up there with chestnuts on an open fire, eggnog and traffic jams in mall parking lots. This time of year, Handel's Messiah draws even the most casual of classical ...

In 1746 George Frideric Handel was commissioned to compose an oratorio for a victory celebration. He based the work on the heroic story of Judah Maccabee – the Jewish leader who defended his country ...

Not only is The Glasshouse International Centre for Music spectacularly set on the banks of the River Tyne, with wide views of the city of Newcastle, but it houses in Sage One a superb concert hall ...

Taking the theme of “New Beginning”, Ensemble Augelletti (pictured below right by Abe Kleinman) explored the relationships between Handel and his contemporaries as they used different compositional ...

The music that’s suddenly filling my head is the sublime section near the end of Handel’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato” (especially as choreographed by Mark Morris): ...