(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...

Best known as Mozart’s Figaro and Leporello, D’Arcangelo does wonders for Handel’s overlooked bass arias. A whole disc may seem like overload, but the programme is full of variety and D’Arcangelo ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The castratos of Handel’s day left a tremendous legacy of arias that is fought over today by mezzos and ...

A recital by The King’s Consort at the Wigmore Hall of Handel’s little-known Nine German Arias, performed with three of the composer’s oboe works, was a pleasant rather than revelatory evening. The ...

Scherza Infida forms the centrepiece of Kasarova's disc, and her agonized performance has the wider range of colour and mood than DiDonato's. Her programme focuses on arias written for Giovanni ...

Iestyn Davies is already known and rightly feted for his contributions to recordings of baroque opera and oratorio as well as for a number of solo albums, not least his Hyperion programme of arias for ...

GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz tells us a story about a singer he discovered only a few months ago without realizing he ...