Our Children’s Messiah performances are specially crafted with young ears in mind! Guided by Mr Handel, this specially devised 45-minute adaptation of Handel’s masterpiece will guide young listeners through some of his greatest hits, with plenty of fun and interactive games along the way. For many children this may be their first introduction to the concert […]
It’s no surprise that Handel’s Messiah continues to draw audiences back year after year. There is nothing quite like it. Although the Hallelujah chorus has become the work’s calling card, Handel wrote every note to impress and astound his listeners. Its choruses are as grand as anything Handel ever composed, the solo writing profoundly moving, the […]
Our Children’s Messiah performances are specially crafted with young ears in mind! Guided by Mr Handel, this specially devised 45-minute adaptation of Handel’s masterpiece will guide young listeners through some of his greatest hits, with plenty of fun and interactive games along the way. For many children this may be their first introduction to the concert […]
It’s no surprise that Handel’s Messiah continues to draw audiences back year after year. There is nothing quite like it. Although the Hallelujah chorus has become the work’s calling card, Handel wrote every note to impress and astound his listeners. Its choruses are as grand as anything Handel ever composed, the solo writing profoundly moving, the […]
It’s no surprise that Handel’s Messiah continues to draw audiences back year after year. There is nothing quite like it. Although the Hallelujah chorus has become the work’s calling card, Handel wrote every note to impress and astound his listeners. Its choruses are as grand as anything Handel ever composed, the solo writing profoundly moving, the […]
Christmas music isn’t all about trumpets, drums, and heavenly hosts. Baroque composers were equally interested in the shepherds and the stable and Arcangelo Corelli’s evocation of the straw and lowing cattle is perhaps the most famous of them all. In using the concerto grosso form, he was both picking up on Alessandro Stradella’s structural innovation […]
Susanna is one of Handel’s lesser-known oratorios. But it’s one for our time, with depressingly familiar themes of sexual assault by those in power, corruption, and the fickleness of public opinion. Susanna rejects the unwelcome attention of two lascivious elders who spy on her while she bathes alone. In retaliation, they concoct false charges of adultery […]
Susanna is one of Handel’s lesser-known oratorios. But it’s one for our time, with depressingly familiar themes of sexual assault by those in power, corruption, and the fickleness of public opinion. Susanna rejects the unwelcome attention of two lascivious elders who spy on her while she bathes alone. In retaliation, they concoct false charges of adultery […]
It’s no surprise that Handel’s Messiah continues to draw audiences back year after year. There is nothing quite like it. Although the Hallelujah chorus has become the work’s calling card, Handel wrote every note to impress and astound his listeners. Its choruses are as grand as anything Handel ever composed, the solo writing profoundly moving, the […]
Join Nicholas Mulroy and a handful of Dunedin’s outstanding string players for a gig that knits together some of Henry Purcell’s greatest tunes with instrumental music by his contemporaries in London in the 1680s and 1690s. From beautiful love songs to infectious dances, this intimate concert will take you on a tour of Purcell’s catalogue of hits […]
