St Peter's Singers

St Peter's Singers return to Fulneck for their annual Baroque Festival on Bank Holiday Monday 25 August 2014. Join the chamber choir to hear Handel's deeply moving setting of a libretto based on Milton's Samson Agonistes - featuring 'Let the bright Seraphim' at its stunning climax! Sally Robinson leads the National Festival Orchestra together with Allan Horsey at the Continuo - Dr Simon Lindley conducts.

Dr Simon Lindley the director of St Peter's Singers said: 'Samson is one of Handel's most famous works, and one in which the dramatic possibilities of the libretto are fully realised. It was composed in the white heat of the period following its creator's wonderful work on Messiah and, with the possible exception of Solomon, is the choral work of Handel held most fully in the affection of the public after Messiah.

'There are beguiling solos from Delilah and heart-breaking ones from the eponymous role, including an exquisite lament at the hero's state of blindness - Total eclipse; no sun, no moon; all dark amidst the blaze of noon!'

St Peter's Singers Music Director, Dr Simon Lindley, has conducted over twenty performances of the work since his first effort as long ago as 1971.