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“Budding singers, composers, conductors and producers everywhere take note: this is how it’s done.” Classic FM Magazine
Gluck Paride ed Elena
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano),
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Gillian Webster (soprano)
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
A buried treasure that has been unfairly cast aside, an all-female cast bring Gluck’s forgotten masterpiece to vivid life, expertly supported on authentic instruments by Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Players.
Excerpt: “Quegli Occi Belli”
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“Kožená is a rash, dangerous Paride, with lean but fruity tone and sensual phrasing… McCreesh’s magnificent cast and crew serves up a veritable rainbow of sounds: dances of billowing softness, throbbing recitatives and tart, lashing (but unheeded) reminders of civic duties.”Time Out (New York)
“A ravishing seduction.”BBC Music Magazine
“Paul McCreesh’s Gabrieli ensemble reminds the listener yet again of the fabulous standard we enjoy these days for early-instrument groups on CD. Rhythmically and tonally the Gabrieli’s contribution is simply faultless; none of the other brilliant groups out there, whether British, French or German, could achieve more in this music. McCreesh is absolutely at one with his singers, an ultra-sensitive accompanist throughout…”International Record Review
DG Archiv
0289 477 5415 2 DDD AH2
May 2005