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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’

Freya Parr

Published: December 12, 2019 at 10:35 am

‘John Butt’s deep grasp of Handel’s rhetoric and of large scale structure turns the work’s patchwork quality into a virtue.’

Handel Samson Joshua Ellicott and Hugo Hymas (Tenors); Jess Dandy (Alto); Matthew Brook and Vitali Rozynko (Basses); Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan and Fflur Wyn (Soprano); Tiffin Boys Choir/ James Day; Dunedin Consort/ John Butt Linn CKD 599 203 mins

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.

The best recording of Handel’s Samson yet

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