Handel Goes Wild 
Arias from Alcina, Rinaldo et al 
Nuria Rial s, Valer Sabadus ct, L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar
Erato 9029581169

Listening to this disc is like watching as a group of squatters set up camp in your home, scrawling graffiti over the wallpaper, breaking up furniture for firewood and smashing the crockery, while you plead uselessly with them to stop. What scraps and fragments of Handel are left intact after L’Arpeggiata’s ravages have a certain poignant value, but their beauty only serves to underline the senseless waste of Handel Goes Wild.

Like their previous Purcell disc, this recording subjects...