News
- Current Vacancies: Administrator & Marketing Officer - 02.02.12
Gabrieli Consort & Players is looking to appoint a creative and versatile Administrator & Marketing Officer to be involved in a diverse and interesting range of tasks throughout the organisation. The successful candidate will not only help to oversee the running of our busy office, but also be invol
- Haydn's The Seasons in January: "music-making of infectious vitality" - 24.01.12
In January 2012, Gabrieli performed Haydn's The Seasons at the Barbican Centre, London and Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris. Here are some reviews from the concerts.
- A Christmas message from artistic director Paul McCreesh - 23.12.11
I’d like to say thank you to everybody for all your wonderful support over the year especially for our fantastic Elijah project which still rings in my head and moves within my soul.
- Haydn’s 'The Seasons' - 23.11.11
Taking three years to complete (1798 – 1801), The Seasons was Haydn’s culminating masterpiece. Eloquently exploring spring, summer, autumn and winter, The Seasons also contemplates man’s relationship to nature, the harvest and the year’s cycle. Gabrieli Consort & Players performs this illustrative,
- Bach 'St Matthew Passion' Lausanne, Saturday 5 November - 23.11.11
Following three days of rehearsals in London, Gabrieli Players, 8 soloists and Paul McCreesh travelled to Lausanne earlier this month for a one-off performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Oboist Katharina Spreckelsen, organist Jan Waterfield and flautist Eva Caballero report back!
- Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts - 15.11.11
Paul McCreesh’s debut release of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts, recorded in collaboration with the Wratislavia Cantans Festival (with financial support from the city of Wrocław), has received a huge amount of praise from you and the music critics. Read all the latest CD reviews below.
- Double your donation at 10am on Monday 5 December 2011! - 04.11.11
From 5 - 9 December your donation could go twice as far.
£10,000 of donations made online to Gabrieli during the week of
5 December could be doubled! To double a donation, go to www.gabrieli.com from 10am on Monday 5 December and click on the donate button.
- Mendelssohn's Elijah - musicians reviews - 15.10.11
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli musicians and singers from the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir and Gabrieli Young Singers’ Scheme are still on a high after one of Gabrieli’s busiest and most exciting summers recording Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Read reviews of the Prom and recording written by Gabrieli musicians.
- Mendelssohn's Elijah: BBC Proms 2011 press reviews - 14.10.11
“When the fiery chariot finally arrived to transport Elijah aloft and the antiphonal trumpets and drums and assorted ophicleides of Paul McCreesh’s mightily augmented Gabrieli Consort &Players were rent asunder by the open-stopped thrust of the Royal Albert Hall organ you suddenly realised why t
- Gabrieli and Ulster Youth Chamber Choir perform Bach and Mendelssohn choral programme - 11.10.11
On Sunday 23 October 2011 at St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast, Paul McCreesh will direct the Gabrieli Consort and the Ulster Youth Chamber Choir, with organist William Whitehead for an evening choral programme featuring Mendelssohn’s Motets Op. 79, interspersed with pieces from the Bach Organbuechlei