This iconic choral masterpiece, a favourite of many audiences, is performed on this occasion with original instruments, with highly-rated baroque solo specialists and an acclaimed Liverpool choir. The work includes favourite movements such as the ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus, ‘The trumpet shall sound’ and ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth’, and recounts the story of Christ, from birth, beyond resurrection to revelation.
Hilary Cronin, winner of both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition, Hilary Cronin studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and was a Robinson Hearn, Trinity College London, and Dame Susan Morden Scholar. Prior to this, Hilary read Music and was a choral scholar at Royal Holloway University of London, where she was awarded The Driver Prize and the Dame Felicity Lott Bursary. She also studied on British Youth Opera’s 2020/2021 Serena Fenwick Programme. Hilary sung wth LWC last season in WIll Todd's Mass in Blue.
Baritone James Berry began his musical training as a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire. After studying at Bloxham School and King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, he read Religion and Anthropology at the University of Manchester, while learning singing with Andrew Heggie. He then started his formal vocal training at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), studying with Paul Nilon. While there, he was awarded the John Cameron Prize for the Singing of Lieder, and was a finalist in both the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss and the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award for Singers.
A finalist in the International Handel Singing Competition in 2020, Ruairi Bowen (tenor), is much in demand as an interpreter of Baroque repertoire in the UK and abroad, collaborating with some of the leading conductors in the field including Stephen Layton, Emmanuelle Haïm and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. An experienced evangelist of Bach’s Passions, Ruairi made his debuts at Wigmore Hall, Bachfest Leipzig and Snape Maltings with Solomon’s Knot, with whom he will join for Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorium this winter.
A member of the tenth edition of Les Arts Florissants’ Jardin des Voix, Tim Morgan is a Samling artist and was a finalist in the 2019 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. His current and future engagements include; Handel’s Partenope (Armindo) with Les Arts Florissants, tours, as a soloist, of motets by Bach and Schütz, and of Carissimi and Scarlatti with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel’s Agrippina (Ottone) with English Touring Opera, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia.