Tim Mead reviews
Handel: Rodelinda
Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies et al; The English Concert/Harry Bicket (Linn Records)
Proud Songsters – English Solo Song
Michael Chance, Lawrence Zazzo, Tim Mead (countertenor), et al, Simon Lepper (piano) (King's College)
Handel: Messiah (RIAS Kammerchor)
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Justin Doyle, et al (Pentatone)
Purcell Songs and Dances
Tim Mead; Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien/François Lazarevitch (Alpha Classics)
Handel’s Brockes-Passion in a performance to remember
‘Egarr recognises Handel’s often vivid responses to Brockes’s graphic text and draws from them deeply-felt, contrasting emotions’