Name: Handel's Messiah by Candlelight
Start: 2025-12-06T18:30:00+00:00
Location: St Mary Le Strand, Strand, London WC2R1ES

Enjoy a new abridged version of Handel’s most famous oratorio in the evocative candlelit setting of St Mary le Strand, James Gibbs’ baroque masterpiece and arguably the most beautiful of the Queen Anne Churches.
This is a complete (but abridged) performance of Messiah, accompanied on the organ, and lasting about 75 minutes, without interval, giving concert-goers time to have dinner after the performance!
Featuring
The L’Inviti Singers
Alexander Pott (organ)
Directed by David Guest
Programme
Messiah – GF Handel
The L’Inviti Singers is a chamber choir comprising singers handpicked from the UK's major churches and cathedrals (St Paul's, Westminster Abbey etc) and internationally renowned chamber groups (The Sixteen, Tenebrae etc).
Alexander Pott is a former organ scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, and between 2017 and 2024 was Assistant Organist at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is currently researching for his PhD at Cambridge University.