BBC Proms 2025 – Handel’s Alexander’s Feast (Dublin version, 1742). Peter Whelan conducts the Irish Baroque Orchestra & Chorus, with Hilary Cronin, Hugh Cutting and Stuart Jackson. Saturday, August 30, Royal Albert Hall @ 7.30 p.m./Radio 3/For the record. PROM PHOTO 1/Chris Christodoulou.

A Handel rarity that celebrates the power of music itself. Alexander’s Feast is an oratorio of operatic intensity, setting John Dryden’s poem about the musician Timotheus, who stirs Alexander the Great to destructive revenge. The piece is heard in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742.

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BBC Proms 2025 – Handel’s Alexander’s Feast (Dublin version, 1742). Peter Whelan conducts the Irish Baroque Orchestra & Chorus, with Hilary Cronin, Hugh Cutting and Stuart Jackson. Saturday, August 30, Royal Albert Hall @ 7.30 p.m./Radio 3/For the record. PROM PHOTO 2/Chris Christodoulou.

BBC Proms 2025 – Handel’s Alexander’s Feast (Dublin version, 1742). Peter Whelan conducts the Irish Baroque Orchestra & Chorus, with Hilary Cronin, Hugh Cutting and Stuart Jackson. Saturday, August 30, Royal Albert Hall @ 7.30 p.m./Radio 3/For the record. PROM PHOTO 3/Chris Christodoulou.