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Handel’s Messiah Reimagined

January 28, 2022 by OHC

The Oxford Harmonic Choir is offering an exciting opportunity in its upcoming concert to hear the UK première of Sir Andrew Davis’s colourfully re-orchestrated version of the perennial favourite that is Handel’s Messiah. The concert will take place at 7.30 on 26 March in Oxford Town Hall.

Sir Andrew describes his veneration for Handel and the ideas behind his version in the following words:

‘My aim was to keep Handel’s notes, harmonies, and style intact but to make use of all the colours available from the modern symphony orchestra in order to underline the mood and meaning of individual movements. … Everything I have done instrumentally stems from the enormous respect, even awe, which I feel towards this supreme masterpiece.  If any of my ideas should help to illuminate any part of it, I shall be happy.’

The performance will be conducted by the choir’s conductor, Robert Secret, who writes:

‘When I was asked, by the choir, to do a performance of Messiah more akin to the way it was performed one hundred years ago, to celebrate our centenary, the obvious solution was to use the Ebenezer Prout edition orchestrated for full orchestra. However, David Morris, our Treasurer, told me of the Andrew Davis orchestration. On hearing it, I was won over by the imagination that was put into this version. It is no mere adding in of extra instruments but a beautiful recreation of this masterpiece with a full symphony orchestra, even including a harp, and with sensitive use of percussion instruments in some numbers.’

Tickets for this performance of Handel’s Messiah are available now from Tickets Oxford.

Filed Under: Concerts Tagged With: Handel Messiah, Sir Andrew Davis

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