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 ...

"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 ...

In the summer of 1717 George Frideric Handel composed music to keep the King of England entertained on his boat trip down the River Thames. We now call that music Handel’s “Water Music,” and the ...

How do I know? Because there he was, as we all suspected he would be because of tight security, enjoying among other things a more relaxed performance of "Zadok the Priest" than the splendid one a ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Collections of works written and performed by Nathalie Joachim and Philip Glass, and a recording of Handel’s “Alcina,” are among the highlights.

One of the most magnificent achievements in music, Handel’s Messiah is an annual holiday season must-go for music lovers everywhere. Hear it today from 2-4pm on CapRadio Music. Roderick Cox—one of ...

The London Handel Festival has been an important part of the classical music calendar for some 40 years, but I felt it was not recognised enough outside the world of Handelian cognoscenti, and we ...

These shows demystify a genre unfairly perceived as archaic and stuffy with expert analysis, musical selections and pure fun.

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