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 ...

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, ...

Purcell’s Birthday Odes for Queen Mary II were beautifully performed by Paul McCreesh, who underlined their political timeliness Paul McCreesh is rediscovering his Englishness, he tells us. With his ...

Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players made Purcell’s 1691 opera relevant for our uncertain era, in a performance full of elegance and joy ‘It’s the first great example of British ...

Ivan Hewett reviews Haydn's thrilling last oratorio The Seasons performed by the Gabrieli Consort and the Players at the Barbican. Haydn’s last oratorio, The Seasons, has always been in the shadow of ...

Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort & Players took to the Watford Colosseum at the beginning of January to record Britten’s War Requiem in honour of the composer’s centenary year. Also taking part ...

Though its follow-up The Seasons runs it close, Haydn's 1798 oratorio The Creation is surely his greatest achievement, a work whose Genesis-based resume of the world's first seven days has an appeal ...

Henry Purcell, this country’s first great composer, died in 1695 at the age of 36. If he’d lived into middle age, his career would have overlapped with Handel’s London years. Who knows what sparks the ...

When the fiery chariot finally arrived to transport Elijah aloft and the antiphonal trumpets and drums and assorted ophicleides of Paul McCreesh’s mightily augmented Gabrieli Players Consort and ...

Twenty-five years after A Venetian Coronation propelled the Gabrieli Consort to fame, Paul McCreesh offers a new reconstruction of the same event. This is a more cinematic affair, frosted with ambient ...

85 school and youth choirs perform Christmas music of Praetorius and Schütz across 8 British cathedrals as part of Gabrieli Roar The Gabrieli Consort will in coming weeks welcome 4000 young singers to ...

What on earth, one wonders, were early performances of Beethoven's unprecedentedly vast and demanding Missa Solemnis actually like? Did the sopranos and tenors sag under the strain of sustaining their ...