On September 2, Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort & Players will release Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem on Signum Classics/Winged Lion in honour of the composer’s centenary year. The musicians ...

The eminent English conductor Paul McCreesh directs the ensemble he founded in a performance of Henry Purcell’s tragi-comedy. “I went to King Arthur last night, which is exceeding fine” the author ...

George Frideric Handel (1685—1759) was a bit of a larger-than- life character whose music, and its importance, could stand a bit of Reason, that period between the 1620s and the 1780s when the social, ...

And although it offered different pleasures from the multifaceted approach of the main festival, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort’s pared-down reading of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio was just as ...

Lovers of Baroque sacred music will find it tough to choose between two new CD releases. Both are well-nigh-flawless accounts of familiar sacred choral works by Bach and Vivaldi and both are bursting ...

Gabrieli Consort; Paul McCreesh, conductor (Archiv). On his finest recordings, McCreesh has presented historically informed reconstructions of how liturgical compositions for particular occasions were ...

Despite their common histories of silk, spice and commerce, Venice and Spitalfields are not easily to be confused. The passing sounds of vaporetti and London taxis are as unalike as the mosaiced ...

Gabrieli Consort & Players, Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir directed by Paul McCreesh. Howells's 'Long, Long Ago'; Anon fifteenth century 'Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis night'; Francis Pott's ...

Ivan Hewett reviews Haydn's thrilling last oratorio The Seasons performed by the Gabrieli Consort and the Players at the Barbican. Haydn’s last oratorio, The Seasons, has always been in the shadow of ...

What on earth, one wonders, were early performances of Beethoven's unprecedentedly vast and demanding Missa Solemnis actually like? Did the sopranos and tenors sag under the strain of sustaining their ...

Twenty-five years after A Venetian Coronation propelled the Gabrieli Consort to fame, Paul McCreesh offers a new reconstruction of the same event. This is a more cinematic affair, frosted with ambient ...