English Chamber Choir and Belmont Ensemble of London: Handel at St. Martin-in-the-Fields

A rare performance of Handel’s most dramatic oratorio. Original 1738 version. Handel: Water Music ‘Overture’, Israel in Egypt Part 1, Allegro from Organ Concerto ‘Cuckoo and the Nightingale’; Handel: Israel in Egypt Part 2. The English Chamber Choir is one of the best known and busiest groups of its size based in London. Based in the City, local appearances have included performances of music by John Tavener in St Paul’s Cathedral and Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in Alium at the Mansion House. It has sung in all the main halls in the Southbank Centre, at the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, St John’s Smith Square, and Cadogan Hall. It currently appears several times a year with the Belmont Ensemble at St Martin-in-the-Fields and presents its own recital programmes in several other London venues. The Belmont Ensemble of London was founded by its Musical Director, Peter Dyson in 1991, It is now one of the busiest and finest chamber orchestras in the capital.