Bridget Cunningham’s re-imagining of the first part of a typical evening’s entertainment puts George Frideric centrestage, and sets the scene delectably with the flirtatious bustle of the Sinfonia to Acis and Galatea.

Revelatory… a superbly performed, thoroughly enjoyable disc.

There’s a charming ebb and flow to this hypothetical entertainment: the playful Sinfonia from Acis and Galatea leads straight into a little organ improvisation; then the Organ Concerto in B flat, played sweetly on a little chamber organ by Daniel Moult, leads into Galatea’s ‘Hush, ye pretty warbling choir’…a perfectly sensible and enjoyable approach to imagining what a typical night at Vauxhall might have sounded like

an attractive potpourri by Handel and others. These bright, lively accounts of music which we know was heard at Vauxhall include an aria from Acis and Galatea and a fine John Hebden concerto, and to close, the glorious duet As steals the morn from Handel’s L’Allegro.

if all six [discs] are put together with the same care as these two, and directed with the same verve and vigour, this will be a series well worth collecting.