Friday, 12 October 2018

Handel - Esther (1732) (Laurence Cummings) [Somm] [2CDs]


Somm 2007 | EAC LOG FLAC+CUE | 2CDs + booklet | 630MB


ESTHER - Oratorio in Three Acts, HWV 50b

(1732 version)


performed by

Rosemary Joshua, soprano (Esther)

James Bowman, countertenor (Ahasuerus)

Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano (Mordecai)

Christopher Purves, bass (Haman)

Rebecca Outram, soprano (Israelite Woman)

Andrew Kennedy, tertenor (1st Israelite)

Cecilia Osmond, soprano (2nd Israelite)

Angus Smith, tenor (Harbonah)



London Handel Orchestra & Choir

(on period instruments)

Laurence Cummings, dir.


Recorded live in St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, 4/2002
TT: 137'15''