Handel - Messiah - St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Bob Porter conducted Handel's Messiah in a candlelit St. Martin-in-the-Fields on Monday 30th December 2019 at 18:30. The concert was part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London and it featured the Brandenburg Sinfonia and Brandenburg Festival Chorus. I played second trumpet, Paul Archibald played first trumpet and Tristan Fry played timpani.

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Ours was the first of two concerts this evening. The Rodolfus Choir would perform 'A Ceremony of Carols' at 21:30. They, and their director Ralph Allwood MBE, made a cameo appearance in our Messiah, with their choir joining ours to sing in the Hallelujah Chorus, and Ralph Allwood made an appearance as a guest conductor for this movement.

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