Handel/Mendelssohn: Israel in Agypten CD review – a fascinating reconstruction

Mendelssohn’s arrangement of Handel’s masterly oratorio gets a feisty makeover

Handel: Imeneo CD review – some rough edges but Ann Hallenberg shines

This later version of the opera benefits from some striking arias and a love duet, but the star is mezzo Ann Hallenberg, who is in another league

Trevor Pinnock embarks on a quirky retrospective

If you want to hear Handel’s oratorio done in the grand manner, Huddersfield Choral Society and the Royal Northern Sinfonia are the ones to do it

La Risonanza adds to its series of Handel duets on this enlivening disc

Truly fragrant Handel, some exhilarating new music, and a notable debut by Omer Meir Wellber

Glyndebourne’s touring production of Saul is even better than its summer hit

The remarkable Bevan siblings do full justice to Handel’s Italian-inspired works

The Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh realise these evocative scenes of countryside contrasts precisely and colourfully

Singers will be queueing up to include the dazzling arias about the infamous Roman anti-heroine, by everyone from Handel to Graun

A lost Handel opera proves a revelation. And Royal Opera’s Butterfly is a heart-breaker

John Butt led a choir of just 12 in a vivid performance that was at turns sensual, unflinching and menacing, writes Kate Molleson

Superlative work from Ailish Tynan and Tim Mead set this devotional interpretation of Handel’s oratorio soaring, writes Tim Ashley

Nathalie Stutzmann and her chamber ensemble Orfeo 55 give a splendid recital of some of Handel’s best arias, writes Tim Ashley

Lawrence Zazzo excels a fine recital that places Handel alongside his operatic peers, writes Nicholas Kenyon