Iestyn Davies, Ensemble Guadagni - Handel: Nine German Arias; Purcell; Buxtehude; Blow (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 76:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Wigmore Hall Live | # WHLive0038 | Recorded: 2009
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 76:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Wigmore Hall Live | # WHLive0038 | Recorded: 2009
The last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st centuries have produced an array of astonishingly gifted countertenors who continue to set new standards of excellence and reveal possibilities for male singers performing in the traditional range of women who haven't been heard since the days of the castrati. Iestyn Davies doesn't have the spectacular instrument of some of the most dazzling countertenors of his generation but in his more modest way, he is no less impressive. His voice is pure, without a trace of the hollow hootiness that was once characteristic so many countertenors, and is absolutely secure and full from the bottom to the top of his range.