Apollo’s Fire’s founder and director Jeannette Sorrell’s new adaptation of Handel’s Israel in Egypt “gives the work a compelling dramatic arc” (Seen and Heard International), that is “presented with a sense of theatre as Handel intended…scintillating and superb” (Cleveland Classical). Sorrell and her acclaimed Baroque orchestra add to their distinguished Avie discography – which includes Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah – with her own adaptation of the composer’s oratorio Israel in Egypt. This colorful orchestral showcase takes the listener on a biblical journey from the Israelites’ lamentations on the death of Joseph, to the frogs, locusts, disease, and darkness that plague the Egyptians, to Moses’ miraculous parting of the Red Sea.
Handel: Israel in Egypt – Apollo’s Fire
