Review: Handel’s Messiah/St Mary’s Singers

Review: Handel’s Messiah/St Mary’s Singers

Handel: Messiah St Mary’s Singers St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney 6 December 2014   Performances of Handel’s Messiah are a habitual prelude to the Christmas season, with presentations in churches and concert halls throughout the country.  Musical styles are as varied as the performance locations, ranging from attempts to recreate original eighteenth century practices to massed…

Handel’s Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

St Mary’s Singers launch Christmas 2014 in a spectacular way with a performance of Handel’s Messiah in the glorious surroundings of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral. Experience the incomparable music of George Frideric Handel and the words of Charles Jennens in the tale of the Nativity and the Passion, the exuberant choruses and achingly beautiful arias. The…

The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral – Songs of Solitude and Solace

The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral – Songs of Solitude and Solace

The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, directed by Thomas Wilson, with organist Oliver Brett, present Songs of Solitude and Solace, a litany including some of the most uplifting, impassioned and introspective gems of the choral canon.   The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral is Australia’s only fully professional Cathedral Choir, renowned for its rich tone and vast…