La Nuova Musica

Continuo Foundation grantee
Supported by Continuo Foundation
In addition to our live performances, we have recorded several discs including six albums for Harmonia Mundi. We are delighted to be collaborating with the boutique label Pentatone and released Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in 2019 and Handel’s Unsung Heroes in 2021, a disc dedicated to highlighting the instrumental virtuosi in Handel’s work https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/opera/handels-unsung-heroes/. We finished recording our next disc, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, in November 2022, following our inaugural BBC Prom in July 2022.
LNM has an ongoing aspiration to champion living composers as fervently as established baroque and classical masters in order to explore parallels between the two worlds. Our Judith and Holofernes project will be the latest in our commissioning series which programmes new works to sit alongside our specialist repertoire. We have worked closely with several composers as part of these projects, including Nico Muhly (Lichfield Festival and Wigmore Hall), Luke Styles (Foundling Museum London and Aldeburgh Music Suffolk), Anna Thorvaldsdottir, (Spitalfields Winter Festival London), Edmund Finnis (St John’s Smith Square) and Cassandra Miller (Wigmore Hall).
Biography
La Nuova Musica (LNM) is a vocal and instrumental ensemble and registered UK charity (1144998) dedicated to the music of the Baroque and Classical periods, led by acclaimed director David Bates. Over the past fifteen years LNM has established itself as ‘one of the most exciting consorts in the early music field’ (BBC Radio 3). We have performed repertoire from Monteverdi to Mozart in reputed festivals and houses across Europe and perform regularly at St John’s Smith Square, London, where we focus on large scale repertoire such as Haydn’s Creation or Handel’s Messiah, at Wigmore Hall where our performances centre on chamber music and at the London Handel Festival we have now performed eight of Handel’s Oratorios over as many years.
In addition to our live performances, we have recorded several discs including six albums for Harmonia Mundi. We are delighted to be collaborating with the boutique label Pentatone and released Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in 2019 and Handel’s Unsung Heroes in 2021, a disc dedicated to highlighting the instrumental virtuosi in Handel’s work https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/opera/handels-unsung-heroes/. We finished recording our next disc, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, in November 2022, following our inaugural BBC Prom in July 2022.
LNM has an ongoing aspiration to champion living composers as fervently as established baroque and classical masters in order to explore parallels between the two worlds. Our Judith and Holofernes project will be the latest in our commissioning series which programmes new works to sit alongside our specialist repertoire. We have worked closely with several composers as part of these projects, including Nico Muhly (Lichfield Festival and Wigmore Hall), Luke Styles (Foundling Museum London and Aldeburgh Music Suffolk), Anna Thorvaldsdottir, (Spitalfields Winter Festival London), Edmund Finnis (St John’s Smith Square) and Cassandra Miller (Wigmore Hall).
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Upcoming Concerts

History's Lovers
Sun, 11 May 2025
de Jager Auditorium, Oxford
2:30pm
£25 (students £5)

History's Lovers
Tue, 27 May 2025
Salisbury Medieval Hall
7:30pm
£40

History's Lovers
Wed, 28 May 2025
Wigmore Hall, London
7:30pm
£18 - £50
Early Music at Wigmore Hall
Past programmes

A Mythical Double Bill
Sat, 29 March 2025
Shoreditch Town Hall, London
7:00pm
£15 - £70
London Handel Festival
- ➕3 other performances

Charpentier Te Deum
Tue, 18 February 2025
Wigmore Hall, London
7:30pm
£18 - £50
Early Music at Wigmore Hall

Carols and Seasonal Songs
Thu, 12 December 2024
Wigmore Hall, London
7:30pm
£18-50
Early Music at Wigmore Hall

Christmas Concert
Wed, 11 December 2024
Salisbury Medieval Hall
7:00pm
£25-50

Haydn’s The Creation
Thu, 14 November 2024
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
7:30pm
£17.50-£45

Handel - Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Tue, 29 October 2024
Wigmore Hall, London
7:30pm
£18-£50
Early Music at Wigmore Hall

Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sat, 22 June 2024
The Grange Festival, Northington
5:00pm
£30 - £230
The Grange Festival
- ➕2 other performances