COMPOSERS: Handel
LABELS: Sony
WORKS: Serse
PERFORMER: Malafronte, Jennifer Smith, Asawa, Milne, Bickley; Hanover Band and Chorus/Nicholas McGegan
CATALOGUE NO: 88697532062
This 12-year-old recording remains among the best of Handel opera on disc. McGegan’s direction is lively, his singers excellent. Orchestral playing is stylish. Only a ‘shoe-string’ booklet mars its re-issued format. George Pratt