The Occam Singers perform Handel and Zelenka

The Occam Singers’ next concert, once again, looks to be both interesting and exciting. They sing Handel’s Dixit Dominus, an explosive statement of intent by the 22-year-old composer then living and working in Italy. Jan Dismas Zelenka is one of the great rediscoveries of the past fifty years, a composer of outstanding talent, famous in his day but almost entirely neglected since then. The concert also includes one of his settings of the Miserere, a tantalising example of his original and individual voice.