Prom 54: 26.08.16 - Collegium Vocale Gent and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

[BBMmk2]

One of my single favourite recordings of anything is her duet with Mark Padmore in As Steals the Morn from "L'Allegro &c" on his Hyperion Handel collection

As good as it gets

Ah yes, must spin that soon! Very good, indeed! :)

Having heard this, I have to fall back on my first post in this thread and I have to say that this was one of the life changing events that a listener has about a composer. The only other conductor that has done for me, was Claudio Abbado.

[Barbirollians]

Lucy Crowe is a terrifically versatile singer too - a couple of years back she was a fine Gilda deputising late on in the ROH's Rigoletto - a real flesh and blood Gilda rather than a sacrificial lamb .