Concerts

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Paul McCreesh, director

Purcell  'Welcome to all the Pleasures', Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Britten   Hymn to St. Cecilia Op. 27
Purcell  'Hail, bright Cecilia!', Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

This programme brings together two of Britain’s finest composers, Purcell and Britten, in works dedicated to Saint Cecilia, Christian martyr and patron saint of musicians. The music is full of beautiful vocal lines and brilliant instrumental effects from a large baroque orchestra.

This concert is part of the music festival, La Chaise Dieu. Read more about the festival at www.chaise-dieu.com.

Gabrieli Consort

Paul McCreesh, director

Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort perform the stunning a cappella programme A Spotless Rose, exploring music from the ancient to modern day in honour of the Virgin Mary.

“Time and again in this profoundly sentient collection of Marian compositions the Gabrieli Consort effectively bypass the whole self-orientated notion of ‘performance’, drawing the listener into what, in many of the pieces, is process of prayer through music.” BBC Music Magazine

Click here to listen to extracts from the Grammy nominated recording A Spotless Rose.

This concert is part of the music festival, La Chaise Dieu. Read more about the festival at www.chaise-dieu.com.

Chetham's School of Music

Wrocław Festival Orchestra

Wrocław Philharmonic Choir

Robert Murray, tenor

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Paul McCreesh, director

Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, choir director

Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players will perform at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival for the fifth year in a row in 2010. This year, they will collaborate with Wrocław Festival Orchestra, Wrocław Philharmonic Choir and Chetham's School of Music in a colossal performance of Berlioz’s Requiem - Grande Messe des Morts. This powerful and emotive work will be performed by an orchestra and choir of over 350 with four antiphonal brass choirs.

For more information on the festival see Wratislavia Cantans or visit the website www.wratislaviacantans.pl.