Messiah Fifty Sermons on Handels Oratorio
The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth Haggai 26 7
This episode explore John Newton's series of 50 sermons based on the libretto of Handel's Messiah, delivered at St. Mary Woolnoth between 1785 and 1787. It examines the spiritual and artistic context of these reflections on the biblical passages used in the oratorio.