Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Handel’s portrait of Samson is one of the most memorable in all his oratorios. This version of the biblical ...

H+H Artistic Director Harry Christophers is joined by an international cast of outstanding singers and the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus to close the season with George Frideric Handel's ...

Hot on the heels of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' sold-out season of Messiah, Brett Weymark conducts another of Handel's brilliant oratorios - his mighty Samson. One concert only, Saturday, 8 April, ...

Handel created two oratorio masterpieces in 1741, but only one, “Messiah,” gets performed regularly. The other, “Samson,” garnered a 20th-century publicity hit when Kiri Te Kanawa sang its concluding ...

The Santa Barbara Master Chorale (Steven R. Hodson, artistic director) will present a concert version of George Frideric Handel’s Samson (1743) at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 14, and 3 p.m., Sunday, ...

BRATTLEBORO >> This spring Susan Dedell, marking her 25th year as the director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir, takes a fresh look at Georg Frederic Handel's great oratorio, Samson, to be performed ...

Handel’s Samson HWV 57 may not enjoy as many outings as one might imagine, considering it is acclaimed as one of his greatest oratorios, but the BBC Proms does hold it in high regard. While the first ...

Allan Clayton’s rich tenor defied the tricksy acoustics of the great hall, while the Philharmonia Chorus were truly outstanding Where does the strength of Allan Clayton’s tenor lie? Is it, like the ...

The Dunedin Consort recently demonstrated that the unabridged first performance version of Samson (1743) is a complex masterpiece of musical and literary ideas that are conveyed less adroitly in the ...