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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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. |
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Franz Schu
Lieder nach Heinrich Heine aus "Schwanengesang", Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte, Lieder und Tänze des Todes, Cinq chan George London Erik Werba, Paul Ulanowsky, Piano [ ORFEO / CD - released 22/Sep/2009 ] |
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Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond
Blues In Time [ CD - released 11/Jul/2011 ] Three years after Gerry Mulligan initially sat in with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the baritone saxophonist arrived at a point where he could perform alongside Brubeck's alto saxophonist, Paul Desmond, for this much anticipated session. |
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Gerry Paul
Tales From the Sea & An Elephant Tree [ Wacky Tales / CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] With the musical boasts and zany humour in this all original album, the non-age-segregated sound will appeal to kids and arrested adolescents. |
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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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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Great Comedies: - Twelfth Night / A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Taming of the Shrew (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London) Globe Theatre / Liam Brennan, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Fry, Paul Chahidi, Colin Hurley [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike... |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in June 2012) Globe Theatre / Liam Brennan, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Fry, Paul Chahidi, Colin Hurley [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (Telegraph) for the 2012/13 season at London's Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tim Carroll. The hilarious tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Saul (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Christopher Purves, Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Bevan, Paul Appleby / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte Critics' Choice Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Jul/2024 ] "Christopher Purves is utterly consumed by his role as Saul...Iestyn Davies is vocally outstanding as David, with his customary melting melismas." Opera |
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RAVEL
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / l'Heure Espagnole (complete operas recorded in 2012) Glyndebourne Opera / Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain, Paul Gay, Elliot Madore, François Piolino / Kazuki Ono (cond) [ FRA Musica DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Opera |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / l'Heure Espagnole (complete operas recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain, Paul Gay, Elliot Madore, François Piolino / Kazuki Ono (cond) [ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Opera |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (complete opera recorded in 2016) Glyndebourne Opera / Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Philippe Sly, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote / Antonello Manacorda (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today" Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Sept 2017 |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Philippe Sly, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote / Antonello Manacorda (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today" Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Sept 2017 |