Artistic Director | David Bates
Recordings
Explore La Nuova Musica's extensive and award-winning discography, under the direction of David Bates
Handel's Unsung Heroes
Pentatone, 2021
A former BBC Music Magazine 'Recording of the Month', Handel's Unsung Heroes turns the spotlight on LNM's own obbligato instrumentalists, violinist Thomas Gould, oboist Leo Duarte and bassoonist Joe Qiu. We hear them placed as equal partners alongside soprano Lucy Crowe, mezzo-soprano Christine Rice and countertenor Iestyn Davies, in repertoire drawn from Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare, Alcina, Agrippina and Ariodante.
Leçons de Ténèbres
harmonia mundi, 2016
For his Leçons de Ténèbres, a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, “Couperin le Grand” fused devotional expression with a dramatic performing style embodied here by sopranos Lucy Crowe and Elizabeth Watts. Two Trio Sonatas and a Stabat Mater by Sébastien de Brossard round out this luminous programme.
A Royal Trio: Arias by Handel, Ariosti & Bononcini
harmonia mundi, 2014
American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo joins LNM for a snapshot of the operatic hits of the Royal Academy of Music — founded in 1719 as the first opera company in the English-speaking world — drawing on Handel, Ariosti and Bononcini circa 1725.
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A former Gramophone 'Editor's Choice'
Sacrifices: Carissimi, Charpentier and Brossard
harmonia mundi, 2014
David Bates leads La Nuova Musica in “Sacrifices,” a program of intensely dramatic oratorios from the middle Baroque: Giacomo Carissimiʼs Historia di Jephte; Marc-Antoine Charpentierʼs Sacrificium Abrahae and Le Reniement de saint Pierre, interspersed with instrumental music by Sébastien de Brossard.
