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Today’s the day – The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019 is now live! From now until 12.00pm on Tues 10 December, all donations made via our official campaign page will be DOUBLED by our charity champion, the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Don’t miss this chance to make your support go twice as far. This year, […]

For the second and final part of our artist interviews in the run-up to our St. John’s Smith Square concert on 16 July, we caught up with three of our soloists, Nicholas Mulroy, Ashley Riches and Anna Dennis, to talk to them about Purcell and performing with Gabrieli:

Ahead of Gabrieli’s much anticipated European tour of Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur, which begins with our performance at St. John’s Smith Square in London on 16 July, we talked to our Artistic Director Paul McCreesh about his love of Purcell, and just what makes this great British composer so special: Gabrieli has a long history of performing Purcell – his music seems to have been one of […]

Last week Daniel Barenboim received the Elgar Award at London’s Royal Festival Hall for his performances of Elgar, in particular his recordings made with the Staatskapelle Berlin. These are, without doubt, outstanding recordings with much to recommend them. Do I like them? In a word, no! There should always be an etiquette when discussing other […]

Welcome to my new blog for Gabrieli. I hope it’s going to be a good opportunity not just to celebrate some of Gabrieli’s projects but to give our audience a better idea of what makes me tick artistically and perhaps a deeper understanding of my sometimes maverick personality! The music business is a slightly strange one, […]