Dunedin Consort - Handel: Samson - Gramophone (RW)

In another vintage year for Handel, Richard Egarr’s revelatory recording of the Brockes Passion (7/11) vies with the new Samson from the Dunedin Consort. Today, at least, I’m plumping for Samson: for its superb solo team, led by Joshua Ellicott and the Bevan sisters, its thrillingly immediate choral singing, and the mingled gravitas and theatrical urgency of John Butt’s direction.