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…