The New Elizabethan Singers’ first concert of their 51st year will be ‘Israel in Egypt’, perhaps Handel’s most popular work after ‘Messiah’. NES is now the biggest choir in West Dorset and so is well suited to this piece that tells the story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt.
The New Elizabethan Singers will be joined by professional soloists and accompanied by an orchestra that includes a period brass section.
Part 1 is a dramatic musical depiction of rivers of blood, plagues of frogs, blisters, flies, lice, locusts, hailstorms and darkness, the miraculous parting of the Red Sea and the escape of the Israelites. In Part 2, the Israelites give thanks and praise to God for their deliverance. It may be a somewhat one-sided account but the music is spectacular.
Tickets (£12, under 18’s free) are available from Goadsby and Bridport Music, both in South St, and the performance will be in St. Mary’s Church, Bridport on January 28th, starting at 7.30 pm
For more information, please contact 07528 105977 or see
http://thenewelizabethansingers.org.uk/concerts.html
