A concert to transport you to the splendour of Baroque Salzburg around 1700. As usual we are joined by a choir of local schoolchildren, trained by Tom Stapleton.

A programme of superb 17th‐century music for voices, viol consort and continuo. We end with a haunting funeral aria by Johann Christoph Bach, a memorial to Julia King (1958‐2019), a longstanding and valued member of Psalmody.

Theodora, the masterpiece of Handel’s old age, was said to be his favourite oratorio. Handel responded to the tragic drama with music of superb quality, by turns passionate, dramatic and full of pathos.