The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2013: Double your donation to Gabrieli on December 5th, 6th & 7th.
Gabrieli is participating in The Big Give again this year, raising money for a new Handel recording: our first Handel disc in a decade! Please help us to make this happen by donating via The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge on December 5th, 6th or 7th.
Gabrieli will be recording Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato next June with soloists Laurence Kilsby, Gillian Webster, Jeremy Ovenden, Ashley Riches and Peter Harvey.
Our target is to raise £20,000 in just 3 days, which is over half the cost of the recording. We have pledges from supporters which means that we know we are well over halfway to our target: please join us and be part of our success!
The Big Give Christmas Challenge starts at 10am on December 5th. As always, this is an excellent opportunity to double your donation and make your support of Gabrieli even more valuable. It is always a highly competitive process and therefore it is important that you are able to donate at 10am, or as soon as possible thereafter, on one of the Challenge days: Thursday 5th, Friday 6th and Saturday 7th December.
For more information, please contact the Gabrieli office and we will be delighted to help.
Visit www.thebiggive.org.uk.
Gabrieli's recording of Britten War Requiem 1962 is now available to purchase!
£18.00 plus postage and packaging
Click here to buy your copy
Gabrieli began 2013 assembled at Watford Colosseum for another of our epic large-scale recordings, drawing together musicians from Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Young Singers' Scheme and Gabrieli Consort & Players, as well as many of the UK's finest freelance musicians.
Surrounded by memories it was only 15 months since we recorded Elijah in that very building we embarked on another mammoth undertaking with over 350 musicians, including soloists Susan Gritton, John Mark Ainsley and Christopher Maltman, chorus masters Agnieszka Frankow-Zelazny and Greg Beardsell, leader Jacqueline Shave, and a stellar ensemble of players forming the chamber orchestra, including the Carducci Quartet and oboist Nicholas Daniel.
The recording is now available to buy, and we'll be adding videos, photos and messages from the musicians to our website.
Gabrieli is an ambitious and audacious ensemble that strives to offer inspirational and thought-provoking performances and recordings, to stand out from the crowd. We are not defined by one area of repertoire, nor do we not confine ourselves to being one type of ensemble. Our work is determined by our passion and commitment to great music, not a dedication to one century or one nationality. From Morales to Mozart, Bach to Britten, our performances are defined by the desire to employ historical performance ideals and knowledge to create music anew, to deliver exhilarating and dramatic performances of great choral and instrumental repertoire from across the centuries.
"...When Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort & Players take on a project, they go the whole hog..."
The Times, August 2011
During 2012, celebrating our 30th anniversary, Gabrieli performed as an a cappella consort of 12 voices and as a choir and orchestra of over 300 musicians. Our eclectic repertoire was performed throughout the UK and Europe and ranged from well-known Gabrieli programmes such as the Morales Requiem, A Venetian Coronation 1595 and Handel Solomon to less familiar ground, such as Britten's A Boy Was Born and the Stravinsky Mass. During the course of the year we released no fewer than three recordings on Paul McCreesh's Winged Lion label: A Song of Farewell, A New Venetian Coronation 1595 and Mendelssohn's Elijah. Visit our recordings page to buy your copy now.
2013 began in spectacular fashion, with a collaboration between Gabrieli, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir and the Gabrieli Young Singers' Scheme to record Britten's War Requiem. The Gabrieli Young Singers' Scheme, launched in 2010, is a pioneering and aspirational education initiative that belongs at the very heart of our activities, offering young singers regular opportunities to sing as part of Gabrieli's professional performances and recordings. Visit the About Us section of our website to learn more about the unparalleled musical opportunities that we are determined to offer to these young singers in future seasons.
Gabrieli's ambitious programme of performances, recordings and education would not be possible without the support of our many loyal donors. We do not receive a penny of public funding. Concert fees only cover the direct artistic costs of each engagement and rarely, if ever, contribute towards our running costs and continued survival. Large-scale recording and education projects do not attract fees and rely 100% on fundraising. We urgently need to attract more donors.
How can you help? Please come to our concerts, buy our CDs, subscribe to our newsletters, tell your friends about us and invite them to join you in donating to us, whether as a one-off gift or by joining our friendship scheme and becoming part of a family of supporters that ensures the ongoing success of this demanding, eclectic, exciting and wonderful ensemble!
