This is Messiah as Handel would have intended it.(Features)

From: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) | Date: May 11, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: By Tony Pogson

Thanks to the worldwide reputation of Huddersfield Choral Society, this town and Handel's Messiah go together like bread and butter.

But in the interesting setting of the North Light Gallery at Armitage Bridge, on Saturday Slaithwaite-basedDavid Vickers aims to produce a Messiah closer to what Handel may have intended.

David, a journalist for Gramophone magazine and musical director of the recently formed early music group Kir...

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