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Iestyn Davies, Arcangelo, Wigmore Hall review - heavenly Handel as the lights dim again
The star counter-tenor unlocks a box of lesser-known treasures
by Boyd TonkinWednesday, 16 December 2020
The beauty of holiness: Iestyn Davies with ArcangeloWigmore Hall
Just before the doors closed again on live audiences at the Wigmore Hall, Iestyn Davies and members of the Arcangelo ensemble celebrated the private side of a very public composer. The peerless counter-tenor, whose powerfully polished command of phrase and line makes this music feel as natural and necessary as breathing, sang Handel’s nine German-language arias to pious texts by Bartold Heinrich Brockes (who also wrote the words to the “Brockes Passion”).