News

2017-18 Spring Season announced

We’re delighted to announce details of our 2017-18 Spring Season! Highlights to include: A revival of JS Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor, with performances in Gdansk, Aldeburgh and London A European tour of Purcell’s King Arthur in a new performing edition by Christopher Suckling, visiting venues in France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands Premiere […]

Haydn The Seasons 1801 named to Presto Classics' Top Ten Recordings of 2017!

We’re delighted that Haydn The Seasons 1801 has been named to Presto Classics’ Top Ten Recordings of 2017. Writing for the publication, Katherine Cooper writes, ‘McCreesh’s new translation is a triumph, and will surely have an illustrious career beyond this recording … One of the great joys of this set is the huge dynamic and emotional range […]

Another successful Big Give Christmas Challenge!

Gabrieli are delighted to have raised over £15,000 in just one week, through The Big Give Christmas Challenge and associated donations. This year our campaign was focused on next July’s choral extravaganza An English Coronation, which will involve nearly 400 performers, including 250 young singers from Gabrieli Roar, in a recreation of a twentieth century royal […]

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017

We are excited to have been chosen to participate in The Big Give Christmas Challenge again this year! The focus of our campaign will be our 2018 gargantuan performance and recording project, An English Coronation, at Ely Cathedral in July 2018. Please support us! This is our first reconstruction project for over a decade and […]

Silence & Music: the reviews are in . . .

The reviews are in, and critics are singing the praises of Silence & Music, our newest release on Winged Lion! Fiona Maddocks of The Guardian lauds the disc as ‘beautifully produced in all respects … The opening song, Stanford’s The Blue Bird, uses a group of sopranos on the top line – apparently as the […]

2017-18 Winter Season Announced!

Gabrieli is delighted to announce its 2017-18 Winter Season! Highlights to include . . . The first revival in 19 years of our iconic programme Praetorius: Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning, with performances in Hull, Bradford, London and Versailles A Spanish tour of Handel’s Messiah with a sparkling cast in Girona, Barcelona and Valencia Gabrieli’s […]

Haydn The Seasons Launches

Our latest recording, Haydn The Seasons 1801 launched on 24 March 2017 to great acclaim.

At the end of the first week on sale the recording entered the Specialist Classical Charts at No. 3, was chosen as Recording of the Month by MusicWeb International and is already receiving a fantastic response from listeners.

Haydn The Seasons - Release Announcement

We are delighted to announce the release of Winged Lion’s latest recording, Haydn The Seasons 1801, on 24 March 2017. Featuring the combined British and Polish forces of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and National Forum of Music Choir conducted by Paul McCreesh, this recording continues the acclaimed series of collaborations between Gabrieli and the National Forum of Music which also includes Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts, Mendelssohn Elijah and Britten War Requiem.

Gabrieli Roar Regional Concerts

At the end of January we were thrilled to bring Gabrieli Roar to Bradford for the first performance in a new Regional Concert Series, with Bradford Catholic Youth Choir.