Recorded live at the State Library of NSW, this episode of Baroque Banter takes you on a captivating journey into the origins and afterlife of Handel’s Messiah.
Ahead of Pinchgut Opera’s upcoming performance of the Original 1742 Dublin Version, Dr Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, guides us through the rich history, context, and evolution of Handel’s masterpiece.
The episode also features a special live performance by mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms, accompanied by Erin on harpsichord.
Select Bibliography
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991)
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Random House, 2024)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man Behind Handel’s Messiah (Handel House Trust, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
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Recorded live at the State Library of NSW, this episode of Baroque Banter takes you on a captivating journey into the origins and afterlife of Handel’s Messiah.
Ahead of Pinchgut Opera’s upcoming performance of the Original 1742 Dublin Version, Dr Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, guides us through the rich history, context, and evolution of Handel’s masterpiece.
The episode also features a special live performance by mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms, accompanied by Erin on harpsichord.
Select Bibliography
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991)
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Random House, 2024)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man Behind Handel’s Messiah (Handel House Trust, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Pinchgut Opera’s pre-concert podcast with Genevieve Lang and Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director, Erin Helyard.
Passion, divinity, transcendence: Pinchgut Opera presents its first concert of the season, Membra Jesu Nostri by Buxtehude. A cycle of seven cantatas composed by German composer Dieterich Buxtehude in 1680. The music is loving: pure, balanced and deeply expressive, demonstrating an extraordinary attention to unity of conception.
Pinchgut’s presentation of this astonishing work brings together a stellar chorus of soloists, including Alexandra Oomens and Lauren Lodge- Campbell, who both return to Australia after performances throughout Europe with some of the world’s eminent Baroque ensembles, along with the sublime sounds of Andrew O’Connor, Hannah Fraser and Louis Hurley. Joining them will be a specially selected group of expert players of the Orchestra of the Antipodes, led by Erin Helyard.
This is sacred, meditative music of the highest order and beauty, presented with all the intimacy, emotion and power that inspired its creation over 300 years ago.
Baroque Banter
Recorded live at the State Library of NSW, this episode of Baroque Banter takes you on a captivating journey into the origins and afterlife of Handel’s Messiah.
Ahead of Pinchgut Opera’s upcoming performance of the Original 1742 Dublin Version, Dr Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, guides us through the rich history, context, and evolution of Handel’s masterpiece.
The episode also features a special live performance by mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms, accompanied by Erin on harpsichord.
Select Bibliography
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991)
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Random House, 2024)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man Behind Handel’s Messiah (Handel House Trust, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
