The eminent English conductor Paul McCreesh directs the ensemble he founded in a performance of Henry Purcell’s tragi-comedy. “I went to King Arthur last night, which is exceeding fine” the author ...

Gabrieli Consort; Paul McCreesh, conductor (Archiv). On his finest recordings, McCreesh has presented historically informed reconstructions of how liturgical compositions for particular occasions were ...

George Frideric Handel (1685—1759) was a bit of a larger-than- life character whose music, and its importance, could stand a bit of Reason, that period between the 1620s and the 1780s when the social, ...

And although it offered different pleasures from the multifaceted approach of the main festival, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort’s pared-down reading of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio was just as ...

Vienna has its New Year's Day concert, conducted this year with some style but not quite enough sensuousness by Franz Welser-Möst. London could do worse for a more modest equivalent than let the ...

York Early Music Festival: The Gabrieli Consort - A Venetian Coronation Tonight, Hannah French presents a recreation of the Coronation Mass of the Venetian Doge Marino Grimani at St Mark’s, Venice, in ...

When Haydn depicts the first light on earth in "The Creation," it comes on with the sonic equivalent of a megawatt blast in this brawny and soulful performance by the Gabrieli Consort & Players. The ...

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Nowadays if you ask a Bach scholar how many singers per part should be engaged in Bach's cantatas and Passions, you might get a dirty look; and if a debate should ensue, you might get a biff in the ...

McCreesh adheres to the theory that Bach’s so-called choral works would actually, in his day, have been performed, not by a choir, but by four singers singing all the music, one to a part. This notion ...