Concerts

Catherine Martin, violin

Oliver Webber, violin

Katharina Spreckelsen, oboe

Gabrieli Players

Paul McCreesh, director

Handel Water Music
JS Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor (BWV1060)
JC Bach Symphonie Concertante in D Major for two solo violins

Music by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Directed by Paul McCreesh

7.00 pm Pre-concert talk with historian John Julius Norwich
7.30 pm Complimentary drinks
8.15 pm Concert

Gabrieli Consort & Players and its Artistic Director Paul McCreesh celebrate five years of innovative music-making at their London home of Christ Church, Spitalfields. Twenty years since the release of their pioneering recording, A Venetian Coronation 1595, join the ensemble for a musical re-creation evoking the grand pageantry of the Coronation Mass for Venetian Doge Marino Grimani, whose love of ceremony fuelled an extraordinary musical bounty during his reign. Experience the dazzling polychoral works of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli as they resound from the galleries of Hawksmoor's architectural masterpiece.

Rolando Villazón - tenor

Lucy Crowe - soprano

Paul McCreesh - conductor

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Rolando Villazón will once again join forces with Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players in an awe-inspiring evening of Handel arias, featuring highlights from the album, Handel Arias, recorded last year. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to see the romantic tenor in collaboration with one of Britain’s leading period ensembles.

This concert is part of a European tour.

Rolando Villazón - tenor

Lucy Crowe - soprano

Paul McCreesh - conductor

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Rolando Villazón will join forces with Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players in an awe-inspiring evening of Handel arias, featuring highlights from the album, Handel Arias, recorded last year. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to see the romantic tenor in collaboration with one of Britain’s leading period ensembles.

This is part of a European tour.

Rolando Villazón - tenor

Lucy Crowe - soprano

Paul McCreesh - conductor

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Rolando Villazón will join forces with Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players in an awe-inspiring evening of Handel arias, featuring highlights from the album, Handel Arias, recorded last year. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to see the romantic tenor in collaboration with one of Britain’s leading period ensembles. This occasion will also mark Gabrieli Consort & Players’ debut performance at the Royal Festival Hall.

This is part of a European tour.

Rolando Villazón - tenor

Lucy Crowe - soprano

Paul McCreesh - conductor

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Rolando Villazón will join forces with Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players in an awe-inspiring evening of Handel arias, featuring highlights from the album, Handel Arias, recorded last year. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to see the romantic tenor in collaboration with one of Britain’s leading period ensembles.

Rolando Villazón tenor

Lucy Crowe soprano

Paul McCreesh conductor

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Rolando Villazón will join forces with Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players in an awe-inspiring evening of Handel arias, featuring highlights from the album, Handel Arias, recorded last year. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to see the romantic tenor in collaboration with one of Britain’s leading period ensembles.

Sarah Jane Brandon (soprano) - Maddalena

Mhairi Lawson (soprano) - Angelo

Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano) - Mary Cleofe

Jeremy Budd (tenor) - San Giovanni

Vuyani Mlinde (bass) - Lucifero

Gabrieli Players

Paul McCreesh, director

Handel's brilliant Easter oratorio La Resurrezione is a product of his youthful years in Italy, an intensely creative period for him when he forged the style that would serve him for the next forty years. Like many before and after, he also discovered that Italy could teach him all he needed to know about singing and singers, and in this performance his newly acquired vocal lustre and energy is thrillingly demonstrated by one of the world's most sought-after Baroque conductors and ensembles and an exciting cast of young soloists.

For more information on the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, please click here.