Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music A performance of Handel's La
Resurrezione given last week in St John's, Smith Square, London. By the time he wrote La Resurrezione
Handel had been in Italy some two years - feted wherever he went and affectionately nicknamed "the dear
Saxon". This sacred oratorio tells the story of the second and third days after Christ's crucifixion - from the defiant Lucifer to the tender, grief-stricken Mary Magdalene.
Emma Kirkby and Deborah York
(sopranos), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Paul Agnew (tenor), David Wilson -Johnson (baritone), St James 's
Baroque Players, director Ivor Bolton