Handel
Karl Richter (conductor): The Complete Teldec & Ducretet-Thomson Recordings (Warner)
Exquisite musicianship: Baroque and Classical repertoire by a radical reformer [DF]
Handel, Blow and Boyce: Choral Music (Hyperion)
Déjà Review) Certainly worth hearing for the music itself, especially the Blow and Boyce [JS]
Handel: Inexorable Amour (Château de Versailles Spectacle)
An eminently well performed disc with only minor reservations which affect one’s listening enjoyment [MP]
Handel: Ariodante (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Performed with stylish affection [JW]
Handel: Mezzo-Soprano Opera Arias (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Magnificent singing [JW]
Handel: Orlando (Erato)
Not perhaps one of Handel’s greatest operas but still much to enjoy and as well performed as one could wish [RMo]
Italophilia. Discovering the Italian Style in Handel’s London (Challenge Classics)
An enjoyable disc, although the programme could have been more adventurous [JV]
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (MDG)
(Déjà Review) A knock-out from the very first bars of the overture [GF]
Zelenka & Handel: Choral Music (Prospero Classical)
Outstanding performance of Zelenka’s little-known mass [JV]
The Art of David Munrow: Complete Warner Edition (Warner Classics)
Protean and prolific [JW]
Sir Thomas Beecham: The Great Communicator (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) An excellent insight into the human relationships and stories behind some of the great symphonic and vocal music on record [DBe]
If Music: Jakub Józef Orliński (Erato)
A recital that sets up tensions, fruitful and otherwise, between voice and piano [JW]
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
by Alan George
Handel: Serse (Erato)
Arrestingly beautiful, sung with passion and intensity [ST]
Handel: Arias of Love and Madness (Channel Classics)
(Déjà Review) Successfully mixes familiar and unfamiliar and performed with style, charm and a nice poignancy. What more could you want? [RH]
Handel: Water Music (Naïve)
(Déjà Review) Vividly realized and thoroughly entertaining performances [MG]
Handel: Messiah (Pristine Audio)
A grand, classic, sui generis recording of ‘Messiah’ in revitalised sound [RMo]
Handel: Israel in Egypt (Alpha Classics)
A lot going for this recording – but significant reservations too [JQ]
Gundula Janowitz (soprano) In Concert (VAI)
I’d be willing to stay up all night to hear her [RMo]
Handel: Messiah (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A middle-of-the-road performance which just about presses all the right buttons [BW]
Handel: Acis and Galatea (Linn)
A strong contender for the Recording of the Year [BW]
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Naxos)
A typically thought-provoking Calixto Bieito production of Handel’s masterpiece, well sung and played [DHa]
Heinrich Koll (viola): The Art of the Viola (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Fluent and elegant, and very pleasing [JW]
Handel & Haydn: Piano Works (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Even harpsichord lovers will appreciate the Handel [BW]
