Joshua Ellicott reviews
Handel: Rodelinda
Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies et al; The English Concert/Harry Bicket (Linn Records)
Handel: Samson
Dunedin Consort/John Butt, et al (Linn)
The best recording of Handel’s Samson yet
‘John Butt’s deep grasp of Handel’s rhetoric and of large scale structure turns the work’s patchwork quality into a virtue’
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The premier recording of Dyson's Choral Symphony
George Dyson wrote his Choral Symphonyin 1910, for his Oxford doctorate, but it gathered dust in the university’s Bodleian Library for the best part of a century until Dyson biographer Paul Spicer discovered it. This is the Symphony’s premiere recording.