(Credit：Thomas Ziegler ) Written in the wake of the Jacobite rising to celebrate the Duke of Cumberland’s victory, the Händel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” inherently carries a nearly dynastic majesty. In the hands of conductor Holger Speck, the baroque ensemble Les Favorites, and the Vocalensemble Rastatt, avoided the pitfall of simple martial reading, but into a multi-layered human drama. Speck chose {…}