Cross-dressing Handel arias

Not only did last Thursday's late night prom get a less than complimentary review from the Guardian, but on Saturday morning's Breakfast even Martin Handley, R3's presenter at the Albert Hall on Thursday, confessed himself baffled by the staging and suggested that the whole event might have worked rather better on radio alone. Ouch!

And having listened to a substantial chunk of the concert, complete with plenty of thumps and clunks from the stage and some very murky sound in Myself I shall adore, I can't help but agreeing with the consensus: there may well be good performances in there somewhere, but they sound a like they've been upstaged by the gimmickry...