FOR the past twenty-three years, the only Handel oratorio to be heard in town was the “Messiah,” which was produced annually not so much as a musical offering but rather as a Christmas devotion. Now, ...

Music director Peter Butterfield conducts the Civic Orchestra of Victoria and the Victoria Philharmonic Choir in the singalong Handel's Messiah a few years ago.BRUCE STOTESBURY Victoria, like many ...

Evergreen of Evergreens, Oratorio of Oratorios, forever and ever! Would Handel’s “Messiah” be as ubiquitous if the composer had, in summer 1741, been handed a different biblical life to set to music, ...

The counter-tenor David Daniels is such a profoundly musical Handel interpreter, it is disappointing that so far he has sung so few roles in that composer's operas and oratorios complete on disc.

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was originally ...

Agreed: Mirth, with thee I mean to live. The chorus sings these words at the exultant finish of Mark Morris’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” which transforms the Handel oratorio into a ...

Paul McCreesh gives a conductor's perspective on Handel... One of the moments I think I became aware that Handel is a great dramatic composer was when Christopher Hogwood’s recording of Messiah came ...

There's nothing like a big orchestra, choir and soloists and some moving and stirring music to set the pulse racing. Graeme Kay gives the background to this much-loved art form. Traditionally, an ...