Arcangelo Members Lounge

For the first time, we have commissioned a 'presentation version' of our Annual Report, presenting our activity and financial accounts for the year ended 30 June 2024.  

The report details a standout year for Arcangelo including:

• A record-breaking year of live performance activity, with 27 performances across 10 territories including a remarkable 21 venue debuts;
• The internationally-acclaimed release of our studio recording of ‘Theodora’, and 113% growth in our annual streaming audience on Spotify;
• The launch of our studio film series, shared freeview on YouTube, and 47% growth in our annual views on YouTube;
• The graduation of our second Arcangelo New Ensemblists cohort, and the selection and appointment of our third cohort from the largest-ever field of applicants;
• Expanded foreign agency representation through new territory agreements with Askonas Holt and Les Concerts Parisiens;
• Strong organisational growth including a new permanent base at Trinity Buoy Wharf, supported by diversified funding including increased Trust & Foundation support, and Orchestral Tax Relief.

Friends who would be interested to receive a physical copy of the Annual Report are invited to get in touch. We hope that you share our enjoyment of the new-style format, whcih we look forward to replicating in future years.

Leo Appel

Martin Egidi

Francisco Javier Sánchez Castillo

Since joining us in September, our five Arcangelo New Ensemblists (ANE) have taken part in the majority of Arcangelo’s activities. Highlights include our season launch at our new base on Trinity Buoy Wharf; European concert tours with Vilde Frang and Milos Karadaglic;  repertoire workshops with Sophie Gent, Jonathan Manson, and Jonathan Cohen; and performances in the London Handel Festival, including a dedicated ANE chamber concert at the Foundling Museum.

We have also recently completed individual studio filming sessions in which the New Ensemblists have created individual portfolio films. These are in final post-production and will be revealed soon. In the meantime, we hope that Friends will enjoy watching our first 'video diary' of the third cohort, filmed during activities at Arcangelo's new base at Trinity Buoy Wharf in December.

We're delighted to announce that the next Arcangelo album on the Alpha Classics label will be our recording of four of Handel’s ‘Chandos’ Anthems, releasing on streaming, download and CD on 4 July. This recording offers a fresh perspective on some of Handel’s most unusual and striking music: the Italianate psalm cantatas he composed for the private chapel of the Duke of Chandos at Cannons in Middlesex.

For the first time (as far as we know), these remarkable works are performed with musical forces authentically scaled to match the household establishment for which they were originally written. This historically informed approach promises listeners an entirely new experience of music that is too often heard in oversized arrangements more suited to Handel’s later oratorios—forces that would have been physically impossible (and sonically overwhelming!) in the intimate setting of the Chandos chapel.

To celebrate the release, we have commissioned a little promotional video magic from our reliable wizard Andrew Staples, who has re-animated the ruined building featured on the Alpha Classics album cover artwork to the sounds of a suitably transcendent moment from the anthem "Let God Arise". Members Lounge readers get to watch this film a month ahead of its release - make sure to watch to the end to catch the 'special guest'. 

Arcangelo at the London Handel Festival 2025: New Ensemblists (c) Nathan Giorgetti

Arcangelo at the London Handel Festival 2025: Celebrity Recital (c) Nathan Giorgetti

Arcangelo at the London Handel Festival 2025: New Ensemblists (c) Nathan Giorgetti

Arcangelo at the London Handel Festival 2025: L'Allegro (c) Craig Fuller