Sandrine Piau - Handel: Enchantresses - BBC Music Magazine

In this dazzling album, Sandrine Piau crowns her legacy as a Baroque prima donna. Here Piau mines her intimate knowledge of the material to bring startling originality to Handel’s sorceress-heroine arias. You may recognise a title, but much of the music will be new, as her informed additions subvert the original melodies and unleash a ferocious vocalism. Piau’s happy waywardness is matched by Les Paladins, whose director Jérôme Correas is a longstanding musical partner of hers.

Handel confections have rarely been more deliciously served.