The amazing singer in the group was Sherezade Panthaki, a modern day Emma Kirkby...her vocal focus tight and precise, she sang Handel’s difficult music as if it were totally easy, including the fastest Rejoice Greatly I have ever heard.
John Scott conducted a taut, briskly paced and moving interpretation, enhanced by the singing of the two soloists; in particular Ms. Panthaki, with her radiant, deeply expressive soprano.
Leading the cast was soprano Sherezade Panthaki as Galatea, a regular Philharmonia soloist who outdid herself in a performance of cool tonal beauty and technical precision; her aria "As when the dove," with its showy vocal leaps, was the embodiment of effortless grace.
"the evening’s chief glory was the radiant singing of soprano Sherezade Panthaki — a breathtaking combination of expressive ardor, tonal clarity, technical mastery and dramatic vividness."