Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off
Until 6th November, we are offering up to 30% off Harmonia Mundi titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD, Blu-Ray & downloads.
Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off, David Bates (conductor)
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Special offer. A Royal Trio: Bononcini, Ariosti, Handel
Arias & Scenes
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
This is an exceptionally interesting and well researched release…The playing is superb throughout. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Tim Mead (counter-tenor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
[Mead] offers articulate readings of the cantatas, his voice (with its faint echoes of the young Andreas Scholl) is beautifully controlled, its reedy, instrumental quality yielding lovely dialogues... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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The soft-edged clarity of this smoothly sonorous recording is a tasteful foil to the high levels of emotion, definitely and effectively conveyed by an excellent cast. — More…
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus & In furore iustissimae irae
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Bates wisely judges that the pace of the opening chorus [of the Handel] should be dictated by the singers' natural declamation of the line...I particularly appreciated Crowe's gorgeous soft... — More…
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Special offer. François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Elizabeth Watts (sopranos)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Crowe here offers an intense and dramatic reading of the first Leçon … Elizabeth Watts takes centre stage in the second setting – her voice plummy and voluptuous … The two join in an impassioned... — More…
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Special offer. Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV8a
Lucy Crowe (Amarilli), Anna Dennis (Mirtillo), Katherine Manley (Eurilla), Madeleine Shaw (Dorinda), Clint van der Linde (Silvio) & Lisandro Abadie (Tirenio)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Bates makes no attempt to address Il pastor fido's dramatic shortcomings in La Nuova Musica's world premiere recording. His love of Handel's instrumental textures is apparent...In Dennis, we... — More…
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