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Gloucester Cathedral
College Green
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2LX
England
Programme
George Frideric Handel – Israel in Egypt, HWV 54
Performers
Susanna Fairbairn – soprano
Rebecca Afonwy Jones – soprano
Jess Dandy – Alto
Stuart Jackson – tenor
James Newby – Bass
Geraint Bowen – Conductor
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
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Programme Note
One of Handel’s most dramatic and exciting oratorios, Israel in Egypt tells the biblical story of the Israelites’ slavery in Egypt and their escape across the Red Sea. The ten plagues descending on the Egyptians are astoundingly descriptive: pelting hail and the buzzing flies and locusts are vividly conjured in sound. This arrangement by Mendelssohn, created for his own large chorus, has never been heard in concert in the UK.
