Opera News, July 1st, 2002
HANDEL: Hercules
* Dawson, von Otter; D. Daniels, R. Croft, Sales; Les Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski. Text and translations Archiv 469 532-2 (3)
Marc Minkowski and his excellent Les Musiciens du Louvre, together with the team of Anne Sofie von Otter, Lynne Dawson and Richard Croft, already have recorded a notable account of one of Handel's Italian operas, Ariodante (Archiv 457 271-2). Here they take on one of the composer's English oratorios, and they make a case that, far from the received wisdom of the genre's stuffiness, it is an even more dramatic work. I...
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