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Handel: Messiah
Handel's glittering choral masterpiece, presented in a candlelit Worcester Cathedral by the 140 voices of Worcester Festival Choral Society
Part of the Worcester Festival Choral Society 2025-2026 Season
Add to my Calendar 06-12-2025 19:30 06-12-2025 21:30 36 Handel: Messiah Hallelujah! The Christmas season’s essential concert experience, Handel’s glorious oratorio, Messiah, returns to the candlelit surroundings of Worcester Cathedral, presented by the 140 voices of Worcester Festival Choral Society. For nearly 300 years Messiah has been one of the world’s most popular pieces of music ever written. From its mighty Hallelujah chorus – so moving that King George II was said to have risen to his feet at its premiere – to stunning arias and choruses such as For unto us a child is born, All we like sheep and The trumpets shall sound, this is a concert of choral favourites like no other. This year, you can also make a difference to young people in the county, through the power of music: the performance is raising funds for local children's causes, in partnership with grant-giving charity the Worcestershire Community Foundation. Accompanying Worcester Festival Choral Society – the region’s leading, large classical choir – are four, internationally acclaimed soloists and the superb Meridian Sinfonia Baroque orchestra, all under the baton of Worcester Cathedral's director of music Samuel Hudson. Worcester Cathedral, Worcester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Worcester Cathedral
8 College Yard
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2LA
England
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Programme
George Frideric Handel – Messiah, HWV 56
Performers
Samuel Hudson – Conductor
Amy Carson – soprano
Frances Gregory – mezzo-soprano
Simon Wall – tenor
Tim Dickinson – Bass Baritone
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Meridian Sinfonia
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Programme Note
Hallelujah! The Christmas season’s essential concert experience, Handel’s glorious oratorio, Messiah, returns to the candlelit surroundings of Worcester Cathedral, presented by the 140 voices of Worcester Festival Choral Society.
For nearly 300 years Messiah has been one of the world’s most popular pieces of music ever written. From its mighty Hallelujah chorus – so moving that King George II was said to have risen to his feet at its premiere – to stunning arias and choruses such as For unto us a child is born, All we like sheep and The trumpets shall sound, this is a concert of choral favourites like no other.
This year, you can also make a difference to young people in the county, through the power of music: the performance is raising funds for local children's causes, in partnership with grant-giving charity the Worcestershire Community Foundation.
Accompanying Worcester Festival Choral Society – the region’s leading, large classical choir – are four, internationally acclaimed soloists and the superb Meridian Sinfonia Baroque orchestra, all under the baton of Worcester Cathedral's director of music Samuel Hudson.
