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…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
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…
CD
$17.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
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),...
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
CD
Original price ($15.50) Reduced price $13.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?