Sinful emotion in La Resurrezione

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Handel was one of a number of composers who found a neat way round the puritanical proscription by offering oratorios performed against a decorated stage setting and featuring allegorical or biblical characters displaying very human emotions. The texts may have been pious morality tales but the result was opera in all but name.

His La Resurrezione, a too rarely heard example, was given a marvellously accomplished performance by the Gabrieli Consort & Players under Paul McCreesh, who invested it with truly sinful emotional awareness.

Rosemary Joshua was a stylish but formidable Angel, giving Lucifer (superbly hellish blustering by Jonathan Lemalu) a run for his money and finally sending him scuttling into the wings (standing in for the abyss).

Gillian Webster as Mary Magdalene rose to the expressive heights of the work's greatest aria sung at the entrance to the tomb. Topi Lehtipuu was a fine St John, while Sonia Prina, a genuine contralto, brought positively sensual colouring to the music of Mary Cleophas.

Gabrieli Consort And Players/McCreesh: La Resurrezione
Christ Church Spitalfields
Fournier St, Spitalfields, E16QE