The Hanover Band

Renowned period instrument orchestra The Hanover Band returns to Kings Place with acclaimed director Robert Howarth, a top-flight team of soloists and the hand-picked professional voices of the Hanover Band Chorus to perform Handel’s timeless Messiah. There’s no finer way to start Christmas!

Handel’s Messiah takes us from the tenderness of the Christmas story to the blazing magnificence of the final Amen chorus, through some of his most exquisite arias for solo voices and the rousing brass and timpani of music’s most famous Hallelujah (sorry, Leonard Cohen!) It’s easy to see how this oratorio, written in just 24 days in the summer of 1741, grew from its modest Dublin premiere to become the smash hit of the Georgian age.

The Hanover Band has always felt a special affinity for Handel, an early-Hanoverian giant whose music continued to resound throughout the era, and we’re delighted that this tour marks our first collaboration with Robert Howarth, one of the country’s leading directors of Handel’s music. We join forces with a stellar line-up of soloists and The Hanover Band Chorus—our hand-picked ensemble of professional voices—to make this the Messiah to hear this Christmas.

This event will last approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes, including the interval.

Reviews

‘What was striking was the crispness and clarity not just of the Band but the Chorus too.’
‘I really don’t remember Messiah being so spine-tingling or harmonically squishy… A triumph’ Planet Hugill