“D'Arcangelo articulates rapid-fire coloratura efficiently throughout…” --BBC Music Magazine, December 2009
This is the solo debut of one of the most exciting bass-baritones of today. Expertly advised by Baroque expert, Francesco Lora, D'Arcangelo fashions his debut album into a panoramic sweep of Italian Handel arias for bass-baritone. Mixing well-known and rare, lyric with highly virtuosic, D'Arcangelo's phenomenal Handel shows the versatility and wide range of Handel’s compositions for bass-baritone and the vocal capacity of the singer to master this programme. Undeniably appealing to all voice and Baroque music lovers, this album will excite music lovers well beyond.
This is the solo debut of one of the most exciting bass-baritones of today. Expertly advised by Baroque expert, Francesco Lora, D'Arcangelo fashions his debut album into a panoramic sweep of Italian Handel arias for bass-baritone. Mixing well-known and rare, lyric with highly virtuosic, D'Arcangelo's phenomenal Handel shows the versatility and wide range of Handel’s compositions for bass-baritone and the vocal capacity of the singer to master this programme. Undeniably appealing to all voice and Baroque music lovers, this album will excite music lovers well beyond.
"Brando" has enough of his namesake's smouldering good looks to make his mark with this debut solo anthology of Handel arias. Set to the period arrangements of Modo Antiquo, it's imposing stuff, with arias from Agrippina, Orlando and Rodelinda, a pair from Ariodante switching between wretched grief and exultant joy, and elsewhere a selection of hissing snakes, evil, darkness and terror, all wielded with an elegant grace occasionally bordering on the humorously knowing.
--Record Review / Andy Gill, Independent (London) / 25. September 2009
This disc by an excellent bass-baritone is welcome, as it shows the fine music that Handel wrote for the male voice, broadening our appreciation of the extent and range of his operatic achievement . . . The singer has both sensitivity and technique, conveying the anguish of the lamentations while also realising the coloratura demands of the music without difficulty. Sensitive accompaniment from period ensemble Modo Antiquo. --Record Review / Colman Morrissey, Irish Times / 08. January 2010
--Record Review / Andy Gill, Independent (London) / 25. September 2009
This disc by an excellent bass-baritone is welcome, as it shows the fine music that Handel wrote for the male voice, broadening our appreciation of the extent and range of his operatic achievement . . . The singer has both sensitivity and technique, conveying the anguish of the lamentations while also realising the coloratura demands of the music without difficulty. Sensitive accompaniment from period ensemble Modo Antiquo. --Record Review / Colman Morrissey, Irish Times / 08. January 2010
