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Love, jealousy, tragedy and transfiguration — Acis & Galatea has it all. So it is no surprise that Handel’s ‘little opera’, as he called it, was his most popular stage work during his lifetime. It was his first major setting of a substantial English text and would become the prototype for the English oratorio, which earned Handel such fame in the latter part of his career. Performed by Dunedin Consort in the original ‘Cannons’ version with one-per-part choruses — which Gramophone…

Hot on the heels of its five-star performances of Dido’s Ghost at last year’s Edinburgh International Festival, Dunedin Consort returns with an intimate programme of music for tenor and chamber ensemble, featuring Nicholas Mulroy. This expressive and introspective programme explores music by Schütz, Monteverdi, Buxtehude and Francesca Caccini, and concludes with Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi’s remarkable miniature cantata, Lagrime mie.

The “Great Mass” in C Minor may be Mozart’s most daring masterpiece. Scored for a huge double chorus and large orchestra, it was left tantalisingly incomplete at his death, and is performed here with Dunedin’s characteristic historical insight in a new completion by Clemens Kemme. Soloists Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) and Robert Davies (bass) join Dunedin Consort’s exceptional orchestra and chorus for what promises to be a monumental occasion.

The “Great Mass” in C Minor may be Mozart’s most daring masterpiece. Scored for a huge double chorus and large orchestra, it was left tantalisingly incomplete at his death, and is performed here with Dunedin’s characteristic historical insight in a new completion by Clemens Kemme. Soloists Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) and Robert Davies (bass) join Dunedin Consort’s exceptional orchestra and chorus for what promises to be a monumental occasion.

Expect fireworks as the massed forces of the RSNO and Dunedin Consort meet on stage for the first time. In this concert the two orchestras perform side-by-side under the direction of Elim Chan in Jorg Widmann’s extraordinary clarinet concerto, Echo-Fragmente — with Widmann himself as the soloist. While the RSNO close the concert with Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5, it is Haydn’s Symphony No. 39 that kicks off this fiery programme, performed undirected by Dunedin Consort’s world-class instrumentalists.

Expect fireworks as the massed forces of the RSNO and Dunedin Consort meet on stage for the first time. In this, the first concert in a three-year partnership, the two orchestras perform side-by-side under the direction of Elim Chan in Jorg Widmann’s extraordinary clarinet concerto, Echo-Fragmente — with Widmann himself as the soloist. While the RSNO close the concert with Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5, it is Haydn’s Sturm and Drang Symphony No. 39 that kicks off this fiery programme, performed undirected by Dunedin…

The “Great Mass” in C Minor may be Mozart’s most daring masterpiece. Scored for a huge double chorus and large orchestra, it was left tantalisingly incomplete at his death, and is performed here with Dunedin’s characteristic historical insight in a new completion by Clemens Kemme. Soloists Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) and Robert Davies (bass) join Dunedin Consort’s exceptional orchestra and chorus for what promises to be a monumental occasion.

Fun for all the family is guaranteed in Dunedin Consort’s interactive, 45-minute Children’s Messiah — specially crafted with little ears in mind! Guided by Mr Handel himself, they’ll be whizzing through some of his greatest hits, with plenty of fun and games along the way. Suitable for all ages. With BSL interpretation.