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“Budding singers, composers, conductors and producers everywhere take note: this is how it’s done.” Classic FM Magazine
A New Venetian Coronation 1595
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
2013 Gramophone Classical Music Awards Best Early Music Recording
A sumptuous new recording of Gabrieli Consort & Players’ first award-winning CD, A Venetian Coronation 1595. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Paul McCreesh has reworked his imaginative reconstruction of a glorious late 16th century Coronation Mass at St Mark’s, Venice. This is an exciting new version of one of Gabrieli’s most influential and enduringly popular programmes.
Excerpt: Deus
“This vividly atmospheric and engrossing remake is an improvement in almost every other respect.”BBC Review
“It’s a marvellous achievement, incorporating the rapturous choral polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli interspersed with passages of organ and period-instrument arrangements of cornets, sackbuts and shawms. It’s never less than enthralling, especially the lengthy opening ‘procession’…”Independent
“The result truly befits a coronation at arguably the artistic peak in the history of Venice. Make sure to set the time aside to hear this wonderful performance – or rather event – in one sitting…”Early Music Today
Winged Lion / Signum Classics
SIGCD 287
June 2012