Concerts
05/07/09
Brinkburn Priory
06/07/09
Dom St Marien
12/07/09
Brinkburn Priory
18/07/09
Royal Albert Hall
26/07/09
Basilique Notre-Dame
Booking now open for Gabrieli's concerts on 5 & 12 July 2009.
Massed Gabrieli forces perform Haydn's Creation on Sat 18 July at the Royal Albert Hall.
Brinkburn Priory
Dom St Marien
Brinkburn Priory
Royal Albert Hall
Basilique Notre-Dame
Paul McCreesh has established himself at the highest levels in both the period instrument and modern orchestral fields and is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert platform and in the opera house. Together with the Gabrieli Consort and Players, of which he is the founder and Artistic Director, and which celebrated its 25th anniversary in the 2006/7 season, he has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world and built a large and distinguished discography for Deutsche Grammophon.
There are a number of strands that run through the Gabrielis' discography but one unifying theme is the mood of celebration, be it the unbridled joy of Christmas festivities like 'A Venetian Christmas' (a glorious weaving together of music by Giovanni Gabrieli and Cipriano de Rore), Palestrina's Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est, and Handel's Messiah, or the darker reds and golds of Morales's Mass for the Feast of St Isidore of Seville, or even the intensity of Victoria's Requiem, which celebrates a spiritual union between man and God that really does inspire a sense of awe in its listeners. But what I find so totally engaging about these recordings is that coming-together, as if in a musical crucible, of scholarly research and passionate, living, imaginative, joyous musicianship.