Lowrey is as expressive as he is athletic, and his characterisation carries the action…Sometimes Devin steals the show with her sincerity, vocal lustre, wistful pathos and knock-out extemporising. Both principals draw inspiration from conductor Laurence Cummings, whose brilliant manoeuvring through the score shows why he’s a world-renowned Handel interpreter.

Cummings finds a winning gait in the music often missed by Petrou [on his 2016 Decca recording], to which can be added that one of the greatest assets of the new set is the playing of the Gottingen orchestra. Vocally the set is good, if not outstanding. The countertenor Christopher Lowrey’s Arminio is sung with excellent tone and good technique, though his lower register is weak (as was Annibali’s, so we are told).