HANDEL'S MESSIAH

Handel is one for my favourite composers, better than Bach in my view. The latter is too fiddly, and lacks the sunny side of Handel's music.

The Messiah is a great work, with some terrific arias. It's really an Easter piece, but for some reason it has become popular to perform it in the run-up to Christmas. Anyway, tonight I went to see it with my wife, daughter and 1,000 other people in Odense Cathedral. It was wonderful.

Walter Blotscher