The Dunedin Consort creates a stylish version of Handel's first English oratorio, with precision and detail that never get in the way of the music, writes Andrew Clements
Diana Schmid as Irene attracts most attention in this stylish but otherwise dull version of Handel's penultimate English oratorio, writes Andrew Clements
The main event of this concert was the Scottish premiere of James MacMillan's Seraph, which scooted along but showed too many nuts and bolts, writes Kate Molleson
A single concert, even one lasting more than three hours, was hardly long enough to celebrate a conductor of such wide-ranging enthusiasms, writes Andrew Clements
This production of Handel's opera set in fantasy-style Asia Minor at the beginning of the first millennium is ENO at its best again, writes Andrew Clements