Browse: David Bates (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by David Bates.
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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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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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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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British Classical Selections
Johannes Moser, Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead, Michael Fabiano, Christopher Jacobson, Arabella Steinbacher, Alasdair Beatson, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Adès, Sanford Sylvan, Matt Haimovitz, Eric Vloeimans, Jasper van Hulten, Gulli Gudmundsson, Michelle Breedt, Peter Auty, John Hancock, Thomas Hobbs...
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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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Frizzante: Celebrating Vocal Music
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Julianna Emanski (soprano), Natalie Campbell (soprano), Alexandra Steiner (soprano), Katrin Wundsam (mezzo-soprano), Nina Stemme (soprano), Magdalena Kozená (mezzo-soprano), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano),...
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