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Thrilling moments in Alexander’s Feast at the Three Choirs Festival

Three Cathedral Choirs
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Geraint Bowen
© Dale Hodgetts
Gwilym Bowen, Rowan Pierce and Geraint Bowen
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“highlighted the drama within the grander choruses and vivid storytelling from the soloists”
Reviewed at Hereford Cathedral, Hereford on 29 July 2025
Handel, Alexander's Feast
Rowan Pierce, Soprano
Gwilym Bowen, Tenor
Gareth Brynmor John, Baritone
Three Cathedral Choirs
Musical and Amicable Society
Geraint Bowen, Conductor
Porpora's L'Agrippina offers momentary pleasures
**111
Three Choirs Festival goes out in a flawed blaze of glory
***11
Britten's War Requiem haunts Three Choirs Festival
****1
The power of words: Mendelssohn’s Elijah closes the Three Choirs
****1
Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral
****1
Disentangling pain and triumph, clarifying hope
****1
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