"Where Cummings and his expert Gottingen forces decisively score is in their vivid response to the music's elemental vigour ... Deanna Breiwick, rather more vibrant than today's typical Handel soprano, sings with firm, bright tone and free-soaring top notes. Sophie Harmsen fields a warm, evenly produced mezzo ... Kenneth Tarver, with an ideal blend of velvet and steel in the tone, outstrips all his rivals on disc ... This new recording would get my vote ... for the overall quality of the singing and its theatrical energy"