Handel - Messiah
Sunday 15 December 2024 at 4.30pm in the Garden Rooms at Tennants, Leyburn

Anna Devin, Soprano
Gaynor Keeble, Mezzo
Brian Parsons, Tenor
Gareth Brynmor John, Baritone
National Festival Orchestra
​Conducted by David Lawrence​

Tickets £19 (area A)  and £16 (area B)
with £5 tickets for under 16s and students in area B​
Tickets on sale from ​Tennants (via Ticketsource)
There are many works of classical music that are known to the general public. The Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah is possibly one of the most famous pieces of music ever written, even though it comprises only a small section of the complete work. Messiah is known as one of the greatest musical works ever produced and it wouldn’t be Christmas without the opportunity to hear this great Oratorio – a form of music that contains dramatic lyrics like an opera, but which is staged as a concert without sets or acting. 

Magical Mozart
Saturday 22 March 2025 at 3pm in St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate 

tbc, Soprano
tbc, Mezzo
tbc, Tenor
tbc, Baritone
National Festival Orchestra
​Conducted by David Lawrence​

Tickets £18
with £5 tickets for under 16s and students​
Tickets on sale from the Harrogate Box Office shortly
A concert starring Mozart’s much loved Requiem and Ave Verum Corpus.  Of the more than 600 works written by Mozart none is shrouded in more mystery than the Requiem, which was unfinished when he died. How much of the music did he write himself? Did he know who commissioned the work? Did he write a Mass for the dead for himself? None of this really matters when you listen to the music as there is nothing quite like it
 
To accompany these Harrogate Choral will also be performing Rory Wainwright Johnson’s  A Glimpse of the Light - a piece written as a partner for Mozart’s Requiem, the composer states that as he is not a religious person he wanted to offer a slightly different, more worldly approach to the concept of imagining an ‘afterlife’ that tied in more secular or natural themes.  The choir will also be singing Da Pacem Domine by Arvo Pärt a work commissioned for a peace concert in Barcelona in 2004. 
Other Planned Future Concert Dates

​Saturday 7 June 2025 in St Wilfrid's Harrogate
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