David Daniels, Roger Norrington, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - George Frideric Handel: Operatic Arias (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 69:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 45326 2 | Recorded: 1998
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 69:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 45326 2 | Recorded: 1998
The ever-increasing popularity of Handel and his contemporaries, and their employment of alto castratos, has encouraged the development of countertenors capable of similar vocal feats to the original interpreters of the heroic roles in these works. Among these the distinguished American, David Daniels, who burst on to the scene here a couple of years ago at Glyndebourne in Theodora, is a leading contender. If I would place Scholl in the category of Deller and Esswood, with their luminous, soft-grained tone, Daniels is closer to the more earthy sound of Bowman, his voice — like Bowman's — astonishingly large in volume.