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We are delighted to announce that Gabrieli’s The Dream of Gerontius recording has won a BBC Music Magazine Award in the Choral category.

As always, the BBC Music Magazine Awards were selected by public vote. We learned at the start of this year that the disc – our latest release on Signum Records – had been shortlisted for the Choral Award and the public vote lasted from the end of January until the end of February. The winners of the 2025 Awards were announced at a live ceremony at London’s Kings Place on 23rd April, hosted by BBC Music Magazine editor Charlotte Smith and Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. From all of us at Gabrieli, we’d like to extend a massive THANK YOU to everyone who lent their support to our recording, making this win possible.

You can read BBC Music Magazine’s full 5-star review of our recording here. In addition, the June 2025 issue of BBC Music Magazine (on sale from 15th May) features interviews with all the winning artists.

This recording of Elgar’s much-loved oratorio used original instruments from around the time of its 1900 premiere and features tenor Nicky Spence in the title role. Since its release in April 2024, the recording has won last year’s Gramophone Classical Music (Choral) Award and been named Limelight Magazine’s 2024 Vocal Recording of the Year and Classical Winner at the Presto Music Awards 2024.

Gabrieli is proud to count The Dream of Gerontius among its award-winning recordings that also includes Purcell’s King Arthur, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts, Britten’s War Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Read more about the disc here: Elgar Dream of Gerontius 1900

Nicky Spence (Gerontius)
Anna Stéphany (The Angel)
Andrew Foster-Williams (The Priest/Angel of the Agony)

Paul McCreesh (conductor)

Polish National Youth Choir (Artistic Director: Agnieszka Frankow-Zelazny)
Members of Gabrieli Roar
Gabrieli Consort
Gabrieli Players

Charles Béquignon-MacDougall and Emily Dickens (Creative Directors of Gabrieli Roar)

Fairfield Halls

Signum Classics and Steve Long

Recording team: Nicholas Parker and Neil Hutchinson.

★★★★★ This is unquestionably a great recording of Gerontius, one that every Elgarian should have, and ranks high among the many important projects Gabrieli has so far undertaken in its four decades of existence.

~BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE