Jess Dandy 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’