George Frideric Handel’s Messiah
Canterbury Cathedral
Saturday 25 January 2014, 7.30pm
Canterbury Choral Society
Lucy Hall, soprano
Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
Charles Daniels tenor
Andrew Rupp, bass
London Handel Orchestra
Read the Kentish Gazette review of our last Handel’s Messiah concert
Handel’s Messiah (Kentish Gazette, Canterbury, January 2012)
‘Evening of exceptional quality
HANDEL’S Messiah has a fair claim to be regarded as the best-known and loved piece of choral music in the English speaking world. Since 1742 this setting of texts from the King James Bible has attracted huge audiences and did so again when an enthusiastic audience heard a performance of exceptional quality by Canterbury Choral Society, their guest soloists and the London Handel Orchestra, all conducted by Richard Cooke.’ Read more…