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“Budding singers, composers, conductors and producers everywhere take note: this is how it’s done.” Classic FM Magazine
A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation
Gibbons: Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
Walton: A Litany
White: Christe, qui lux es et dies (I)
MacMillan: A Child’s Prayer
Sheppard: In manus tuas (I)
Dove: Into Thy Hands
Morley: Funeral Sentences
Elgar: They Are At Rest
Howells: Requiem
Parry: Lord, Let Me Know Mine End
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Following the triumphant success of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort’s next release was a recording of the group’s renowned a cappella programme of music for mourning and consolation. This is a beautifully poignant collection of British choral music, including works by composers as diverse as Morley and Dove, Sheppard and Walton and featuring Howells’ sublime Requiem.
Excerpt: Elgar ‘They Are At Rest’
“Budding singers, composers, conductors and producers everywhere take note: this is how it’s done… All we can do is applaud.”Classic FM Magazine
“Any disc subtitled ‘Music of Mourning & Consolation’ is not going to be a bundle of laughs. McCreesh has devised such a satisfying programme of mostly short a cappella pieces that the effect is the reverse of depressing… An excellent disc…”Gramophone
“Gorgeously melancholic British funeral music for unaccompanied choir… beautifully sung by Paul McCreesh’s Gabrieli Consort…”Times
Winged Lion / Signum Classics
SIGCD 281
March 2012