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New Beginnings and a message of hope in London Handel Festival opener

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“the explosion of joy when the young choir burst in was palpable”
Reviewed at St George's, Hanover Square, London on 23 March 2022
Handel, Coronation Anthem no. 1: Zadok the priest, HWV 258
Handel, Organ Concerto in F major "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale", HWV 295
Handel, As pants the hart; Chandos Anthem No. 6, HWV 251b
Handel, Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351
Clyne, In Thy Beauty
Handel, Concerto Grosso in A major, Op.6 No.11, HWV 329
Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Dopo notte
Handel, Coronation Anthem no. 2: The King shall rejoice, HWV 260
Anna Starushkevych, Mezzo-soprano
Freya Barker, Soprano
National Youth Choir of Great Britain Chamber Choir
Laurence Cummings, Director
Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’
*****
Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums
***11
Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War
*****
Strong team for a Good Friday St John Passion
****1
Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah
****1
Actéon and Pygmalion: three transformations for the price of two
****1
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