Tonight was another in the series of Messiah concerts of the Winter 2023 season for which I was the tenor soloist. After an earlier lunchtime concert with the Choir of Royal Holloway at St. Martin-in-the-fields, I rushed to Egham to rehearse for Egham Choral‘s winter concert, which featured the first part of Messiah. Conducted by Hugh Beckwith, and singing alongside three other Royal Holloway choral scholars, I found this a particularly interesting performance of Messiah as the movements were interspersed with Christmas pieces by other composers.