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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 |
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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) |
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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... |
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LEIGHTON / TALLIS / WARLOCK / HOWELLS etc
A Rose Magnificat Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2019 WINNER - Choral |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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VIVALDI
Pellegrina's Delight: sonatas & chamber music for oboe Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe) Nicholas Parle (organ & harpsichord) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe), Nicholas Parle (organ, harpsichord) |
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Gail Hennessy & Nicholas Parle
Bach: Oboe And Harpsichord Mus [ Signum / CD - released 8/Apr/2002 ] |
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ROBERT WHITE
Hymns, Psalms & Lamentations Gallicantus, directed by Gabriel Criuch [ Signum Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "The music is sublime... White's... mastery of large-scale form (most notably his monumental Miserere mei, Deus, which takes over 15 minutes) is breathtaking." Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 |
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LASSUS
Lagrime di San Pietro [The Tears of St Peter] Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director) [ Signum / CD - released 2/Oct/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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THOMAS TALLIS / CHRISTOPHER TYE / JOHN SHEPPARD
Queen Mary's Big Belly Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Gallicantus perform music surrounding the fascinating yet tragic story of Queen Mary Tudor's 'phantom pregnancy'. On 30th April 1555 the city of London celebrated the birth of a healthy male heir, but abruptly ceased the next day after the news was... |
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LASSUS / TYMOCZKO / VON BINGEN / COLE
Sibylla Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director) [ Signum / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] "This warrants a top recommendation, for Gallicantus surpass the mixed ensembles technically and edge The Hilliards' more reverential account interpretatively" Gramophone |
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BYRD / MONTE
The Word Unspoken: Scared music Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "The ensemble's view of this repertory, though hardly new, is delivered with such intelligence and rhetorical persuasiveness that the cumulative weight of their Byrd, in particular, is well-nigh symphonic in effect." Gramophone Magazine Editor's... |
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RAMSEY / FORD / WARD / DERING / TOMKINS
Dialogues of Sorrow: Passions on the death of Prince Henry Gallicantus, with Elizabeth Kenny (lute) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Crouch's programme of madrigals, lute songs and motets explores the public outpouring of grief and bitterness at the death of Prince Henry in 1612...The voices of Gallicantus milk every plangent suspension." The Independent on Sunday, 5th September 2010 |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Ballad of the Gnomes Geoffrey Simon (conductor), Leslie Person (organ), Philharmonia Orchestra [ Signum / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] When in 1913 Respighi settled in Rome where he would reside for the rest of his life, he would produce a large amount of highly varied music-some of it now well-known, much of it less so. Geoffrey Simon's championship of the little-known works of... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: The complete Solo Soprano Cantatas, Vol. 1 Gillian Keith (soprano) / Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] Soprano Gillian Keith joins acclaimed Baroque ensemble the Armonico Consort under Christopher Monks for the first release in a three disc series featuring the solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach's cantatas hold a special place among... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Gillian Webster, Laurence Kilsby, Jeremy Ovenden, Peter Harvey / Gabrieli Consort and Players Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / 2 CD - released 1/May/2015 ] 'Another re-creation of an original: this time Handel's setting of Milton's words, a remarkable variety of music well capturing the images and scenes of the text, all expertly performed.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2015 |
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TALLIS / BYRD / GIBBONS / CROFT / GREENE / BOYCE / STANFORD
Great Cathedral Anthems - Canterbury Cathedral The Girls & Men of Canterbury Cathedral Choir, David Newsholme [ Signum / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Drawing international media attention following their founding in 2014, the Girls' Choir of Canterbury Cathedral has quickly become a leading light in the landscape of british choral music For their first recording with Signum - led by their director... |
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HOWELLS / SWAYNE / WATSON / WALTON / BERKELEY / PART / etc
Magnificat Vol. 2 Glen Dempsey (organ) Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha [ Signum / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] 'This project is shaping up to become the most significant recording project ever in the field of choir-and-organ English church music.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2021 |