Concerts
Portico da Zamora Festival
Zamora, Spain
Gabrieli Consort and Bajon, directed by Paul McCreesh
More information available soon.
Music played an important role in the funeral services of kings and queens in Renaissance Spain. Hear Gabrieli perform Morales’ Requiem as it might have been heard in 1598 upon the death of Philip II.
Auditorio Nacional de Espana
Madrid, Spain
Gabrieli Consort and Bajon, directed by Paul McCreesh
Tickets: €15, €10. Last-minute tickets available one hour before the concert are €6, €4. Discounts for children under 26 years, over 65, students with ID and groups of 20 or more.
Available from the Auditorio Nacional de Musica box office +34 913 370 140 or +34 913 370 139.
Book onlineMusic played an important role in the funeral services of kings and queens in Renaissance Spain. Hear Gabrieli perform Morales’ Requiem as it might have been heard in 1598 upon the death of Philip II.
Dias da Musica
Belem, Portugal
Gabrieli Consort, directed by Paul McCreesh
Concert start time to be announced.
More information available soon.
A Song of Farewell is an a cappella programme of deeply reflective music for mourning and consolation. It includes British choral masterpieces, ancient and modern with Howells’ sublime Requiem at the heart of the programme.
Concert Hall de Doelen
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
More information available soon
With cornetts, sackbuts and an all-male vocal consort, Paul McCreesh fully exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music, captivating the audience in a performance that is at once theatrical and ceremonial.
De Oosterpoort
Groningen, The Netherlands
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Tickets €8.50 - €36.50
Available from De Oosterpoort box office +31 (0)50 3680 368
Book onlineWith cornetts, sackbuts and an all-male vocal consort, Paul McCreesh fully exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music, captivating the audience in a performance that is at once theatrical and ceremonial.
Muziekcentrum De Bijloke
Gent, Belgium
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Tickets €5 - €28
Available from De Bijloke box office +32 (0)9 269 92 92
Book onlineWith cornetts, sackbuts and an all-male vocal consort, Paul McCreesh fully exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music, captivating the audience in a performance that is at once theatrical and ceremonial.
Purbeck Art Weeks
Dorset
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Handel: Oboe Concerto No.3 in G Minor HWV 287
Interval
Handel: Acis and Galatea
More information available soon.
Acis & Galatea is a delightful pastoral masque setting Ovid’s mythological tale of two lovers torn apart by a jealous giant. Handel’s beautifully restrained and elegant English setting, with its echoes of Purcell, has remained one of his most popular works. This will be performed in concert with Handel’s Oboe Concerto No. 3.
Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Concert start time to be announced.
More information available soon.
“A glorious and exciting event.” The Independent
With cornetts, sackbuts and an all-male vocal consort, Paul McCreesh fully exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music, captivating the audience in a performance that is at once theatrical and ceremonial.
Christ Church, Spitalfields
London
Tickets: £32, £26, £16, £10 (restricted view), £5 (unsighted).
Book through the Spitalfields Festival box office on 020 7377 1362.
Book onlinePurcell's semi-opera The Fairy Queen is one of his most glorious scores, brimming with invention, in lively dances and songs which range from the sublime to ridiculous, and every emotion in between. The bittersweet and erotic undertones of Shakespeare’s comedy have rarely been as beautifully captured as they are here in this wonderful exploration of fairytale, magic and enchantment. This performance will feature an outstanding ensemble of young British soloists including Sophie Bevan, Katherine Manley, Zoe Brown, Helen Jane Howells, Nicholas Mulroy, Ashley Riches and George Humphreys.
“McCreesh's performance was at once funny, erotic and unbearably sad.” The Guardian, 2005
“... utter delight ... pure enchantment...” The Independent, 2005
Christ Church, Spitalfields
London
Tickets: £32, £26, £16, £10 (restricted view), £5 (unsighted).
Book through the Spitalfields Festival box office on 020 7377 1362.
Book onlineThis new programme places Stravinsky's great mass setting for voices and wind instruments within the context of an early Italian mass, reflecting Stravinsky’s lifelong interest in early polyphony and the mass. The Ordinary of the Mass will be interspersed with motets by Willaert, Josquin and other renaissance composers. This conception is typical of the adventurous programming for which Gabrieli and McCreesh are most renowned.
“Stepping inside the restored majesty of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields, the spirit soars high enough. It soars even more if Paul McCreesh’s Gabrieli Consort & Players are inside.”
The Guardian, 2010
Auditorio Nacional
Madrid, Spain
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Tickets: €30, €24, €18, €12.
Available from the Auditorio Nacional de Musica box office +34 913 370 140 or +34 913 370 139.
Book onlinePurcell's semi-opera The Fairy Queen is one of his most glorious scores, brimming with invention, in lively dances and songs which range from the sublime to ridiculous, and every emotion in between. The bittersweet and erotic undertones of Shakespeare’s comedy have rarely been as beautifully captured as they are here in this wonderful exploration of fairytale, magic and enchantment. This performance will feature an outstanding ensemble of young British soloists including Sophie Bevan, Katherine Manley, Zoe Brown, Helen Jane Howells, Nicholas Mulroy, Ashley Riches and George Humphreys.
“McCreesh's performance was at once funny, erotic and unbearably sad.” The Guardian, 2005
“... utter delight ... pure enchantment...” The Independent, 2005
Christ Church, Spitalfields
London
Tickets: £32, £26, £16, £10 (restricted view), £5 (unsighted).
Book through the Spitalfields Festival box office on 020 7377 1362.
Book onlineA beautiful a cappella programme of mainly English music, reflecting both the beauty of the English countryside and exploring the power of nature and its influence on our emotional world. This programme celebrates nature with music by Vaughan Williams, Howells, Stanford and Britten.
“…it was spellbinding. An ensemble of superb unaccompanied voices soared in elaborate polyphony.” The Observer, 2011
“…wonderfully sung by the mixed voices of the Gabrieli Consort. Every performance is beautifully conceived.” The Guardian, 2007
“…the 22 unaccompanied voices of the Gabrieli Consort… unleash their full vocal power, which was thrilling. I swear I saw Hawksmoor’s mighty pillars tremble.” The Times, 2005
Château de Versailles Spectacles
Versailles, France
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Soloists to be announced.
More information available soon.
Festival de Beaune
Beaune, France
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
More information available soon.
Purcell's semi-opera The Fairy Queen is one of his most glorious scores, brimming with invention, in lively dances and songs which range from the sublime to ridiculous, and every emotion in between. The bittersweet and erotic undertones of Shakespeare’s comedy have rarely been as beautifully captured as they are here in this wonderful exploration of fairytale, magic and enchantment. This performance will feature an outstanding ensemble of young British soloists including Sophie Bevan, Katherine Manley, Zoe Brown, Helen Jane Howells, Nicholas Mulroy, Ashley Riches and George Humphreys.
“McCreesh's performance was at once funny, erotic and unbearably sad.” The Guardian, 2005
“... utter delight ... pure enchantment...” The Independent, 2005
Wroclaw
Poland
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
Soloists to be announced.
More information available soon.
Keble College Chapel
Oxford, UK
Gabrieli Consort, directed by Paul McCreesh
This concert is part of a Martin Randall Travel tour.
Book onlineGabrieli Consort is renowned for stunning a cappella programmes. On this occasion, with 22 singers, they draw on their acclaimed programme The Road to Paradise to perform a concert of reflective music for the end of the day, with John Sheppard’s votive antiphon Media vita in morte sumus, William Byrd’s Christe qui lux es et dies, A Good-Night by Richard Rodney Bennett, Nunc dimittis by Gustav Holst and Bring us, O Lord God by William Harris.
Palazzo Colonna
Rome, Italy
Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh
This concert is part of a Martin Randall Travel tour.
Book onlineWritten in 1707, the story of Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is an allegory where the character Bellezza (Beauty) must resist the temptations of Piacere (Pleasure) to live a life of self-indulgence. The score features some brilliantly Italianate and invigorating melodies.