Since you are interested in Elijah, Op. 70 [sung in English], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Harmonia Sacra Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Gramophone magazine 'Editor's Choice' in July 1995. |
GABRIELI / BENDINELLI / etc
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Early Music |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem) Robert Murray (tenor) / Gabrieli Consort and Players. Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] "McCreesh provides pretty much the enormous forces Berlioz demands...But he recognises that Berlioz sought more than mere noisy grandeur, and the results are fascinating." (BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012 Award for Technical Excellence) |
HANDEL
Saul (Complete oratorio) Andreas Scholl, Neal Davies, Susan Gritton, Nancy Argenta, Mark Padmore / Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor) [ DG Archiv / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2004 ] "This superbly recorded new version of Saul is the first to offer a serious challenge to John Elliot Gardiner's 1989 performance. With equally incisive, disciplined choral singing, the result is comparably over whelming. What finally trips me towards... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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 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 |