A rare chance to hear Handel’s seasonal masterpiece Messiah, in Mozart’s compelling re-imagining for late 18th century orchestra.
With Mozart’s addition of trombones, horns, flutes and clarinets to Handel’s oboes, bassoon and trumpets, there is an abundance of rich and surprising textures – but every inspired note of Handel’s original remains the same.
Conductor Sofi Jeannin is the much-admired Chief Conductor of BBC Singers. Together they join Britten Sinfonia and a quartet of outstanding young soloists – three of them prize-winners at the London Handel Singing Competition and the fourth, Laurence Kilsby, recent winner of both the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and Cesti Baroque Competition in Innsbruck.
Performers:
Britten Sinfonia
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin conductor
Hilary Cronin soprano
Helen Charlston alto
Barbican Hall, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS. Date: 12th December. Time: 7.30pm. Admission: £15 – £65.
Booking: www.barbican.org.uk
