Browse: La Nuova Musica (early music ensemble)
This page lists all recordings performed by La Nuova Musica.
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Handel's Unsung Heroes Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Paul Sharp (trumpet), Christine Rice (mezzo), Roger Montgomery (horn), Joe Walters (horn), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Leo Duarte (oboe), Thomas Gould (violin), Joe Qiu (bassoon), La Nuova Musica, David Bates
This is a stunning collection of Handel opera numbers. For originality, risk-taking and erudition, it towers above its predecessors. It also benefits from its mix of soloists – having chosen... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Iestyn Davies (Orfeo), Sophie Bevan (Euridice), Rebecca Bottone (Amor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Bates is, like Gluck, wonderfully radical. Where other directors smooth over disjunctions, he revels in rupture…This is directorship at its most alert, and aiding Bates is an optimal cast…Davies... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Fleur Barron (Dido), Matthew Brook (Aeneas), Giulia Semenzato (Belinda), Avery Amereau (Sorceress), Tim Mead (Spirit), Nicky Spence (Sailor), Hilary Cronin (Second Woman), Helen Charlston, Martha McLorinan (Witches), La Nuova Musica, David Bates
The suspense, vibrancy and richly layered musical textures of chorus and band have no equal in the discography. The Witches’ scene is an exuberant Gothic festival, with creepily dilating long... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Mead’s theatrical experience comes through most clearly in his dramatic rendering of some of the songs from the odes…The stage songs are often presented with an affecting fluidity, as in William... — More…
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[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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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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Handel: Famous Pieces
B'Rock (early music ensemble), Dmitry Sinkovsky, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (early music ensemble), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), La Nuova Musica (early music ensemble), Francesco Corti (harpsichord), Il Pomo d'Oro (early music ensemble), Georg Kallweit, La Cetra Barockorchester (early music...
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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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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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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 singing — More…
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