J.S. BACH
Easter Oratorio / Magnificat BWV 243 Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Archiv Grand Prix / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Using solo voices in the choruses, Paul McCreesh's approach to the Easter Oratorio and Magnificat is characteristically lithe and energetic. The Gabrieli Players are on top form, contributing pomp and brilliance, and "the five vocal soloists are all... |
IACOMO CARISSIMI
Jephthah / The Judgment of Solomon / Jonah Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The effect is madrigalian rather than Handelian and the text is more sensitively conveyed. The rich continuo resources of the ensemble-chamber organ and double harp, chitarrone, archlute and bass violin-well captured on this recording, effectively... |
GABRIELI & GIOVANNI GABRIELI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gabrieli: A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Virgin Records / CD - released 20/Aug/1990 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 1990 |
GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Music for San Rocco (1608) DELETED JAN 2007 Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] On 16 August 1995, the Gabrieli Consort & Players recreated a famous musical event that took place on 16 August 1608 at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] "the chief delight of this recording is its consort aesthetic...the artists exert themselves to work as a collective...another jewel in McCreesh's crown." BBC Music Award WINNER 2020 - Recording of the Year |
BIBER
Requiem in F; Mass in B flat Gabrieli Consort and Players. Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / CD - released 13/Nov/2004 ] "Wonderfully blended string tone and, in the Requiem, an ethereally silver sound. The chorus is superb, singing with apt weight yet moving with agility . . . This disc provides excellent advocacy for two of Biber's stellar choral works." Early Music... |
GIBBONS / WALTON / MacMILLAN / ELGAR / HOWELLS / etc
A Song of Farewell - Music of mourning & consolation Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "Adrian Peacock and balance engineer Neil Hutchinson have achieved a superb recording which captures the warm, intimate ambience of the venue and which achieves a fine clarity at the same time." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2012) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Spotless Rose Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "Sung throughout with sensitivity to style, this themed programme reveals the reverence and the rapture the Virgin Mary has inspired in music over the centuries." Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2009 |
GABRIELI / CIPRIANO de RORE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Venetian Christmas Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Archiv / CD - released 25/Nov/2001 ] "A very different Christmas disc that finds Paul McCreesh on homeground in a superb and majestic Venetian musical reconstruction." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001) |
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
A Venetian Christmas (works by Gabrieli and de Rore) [ Archiv / CD - released 25/Nov/2001 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001) |
MONTEVERDI
Vespero della Beata Vergine [Vespers of the Blessed Virgin] Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] 'The playing is superbly effective...the singing among the best you are likely to hear' Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine Nov 2006 |
MICHAEL PRAETORIUS
Praetorius: La Messe de Noël Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh dir. [ Château De Versalles Spectacle / DVD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] Michael Praetorius was the most prolific German composer of his generation, making use of a beauty of sound and an abundance of instruments worthy of his contemporary Monteverdi. Here we have a festive Christmas Mass as might have been heard in a... |
Gabrieli Consort and Players. Paul McCreesh TO BE DELETED AUG 2006
Music of the Duke of Lerma (works by CabezAn-GaudA-Gombert-Guerrero etc) [ Archiv / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Jan 2003) |
STANFORD / ELGAR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / DOVE / GRAINGER
Silence and Music Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] This programme explores that vast twentieth-century secular English choral repertoire which goes under the generic title 'partsongs'. It is an extraordinarily rich repertoire to which almost all the famous composers contributed. Buried amongst vast... |
LEIGHTON / TALLIS / WARLOCK / HOWELLS etc
A Rose Magnificat Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2019 WINNER - Choral |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seasons (1801) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Jeremy Ovenden (ten) / Gabrieli Consort & Players, National Forum of Music Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (cond [ Signum / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a Seasons that thrillingly catches both the work's bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime..for sheer sonic splendour it's in a class of its own" Gramophone Award Nomination |
ANDREA & GIOVANNI GABRIELI
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 (LP) Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 LP - released 2/Sep/2013 ] 180g vinyl, gatefold sleeve. The Gabrieli Consort and Players return to the programme that put them on the musical map when it was originally recorded and released in 1990: 'A Venetian Coronation 1595' is a musical re-creation evoking the grand... |
CROFT / ELGAR / PARRY / WOOD / LUTHER / HOWELLS
An English Coronation, 1902-1953: Edward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 CD - released 9/May/2019 ] "One can imagine the virtuosity required by every contributor, at every turn, to make this a reality, let alone a dazzling triumph." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Choral |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Four Seasons / Il Flauto Dolce [2 CDs special price] Genevieve Lacey (recorder) / Australian Brandenburg Orchestra / Paul Dyer [ ABC / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] The Four Seasons is magnificently presented on this classic recording by world-renowned violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra alongside two other much loved works, the Concerto in A 'The Cuckow' and Concerto in D... |
The Gents / Paul de Leeuw
The Gents 'In Love' [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Apr/2006 ] Het is mij een groot plezier u deze CD te presenteren, die na lang aandringen is verschenen. |