Bishop’s Stortford Choral Society combined with Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia on Saturday night (March 23) to tackle the plagues of Egypt as envisaged by Handel in his biblical oratorio, Israel in Egypt. A packed audience at the Methodist Church heard the choir and orchestra recreate the story of Moses and the Exodus, complete with musical imaginings of the frogs, flies, locusts and hailstones, the crossing of the Red Sea, the waves parted by Moses and the ultimate destruction by drowning of the Pharaoh’s troops. Most of the action is delivered by the choir in a series of choruses, which is a te…