Latest Release
- 26 APR 2024
- 14 Songs
- Handel: Messiah · 1997
- Baroque - The Essentials · 2006
- Handel: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato, 1740 · 2015
- Biber: Missa Salisburgensis · 1998
- Purcell: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, My Beloved Spake & O Sing Unto the Lord · 1995
- Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692 · 2020
- Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692 · 2020
- Haydn: The Seasons, 1801 · 2017
- Handel: Solomon · 1999
- Silence & Music · 2017
About Paul McCreesh
Paul McCreesh’s performances, whether they are by his own period band or by modern-instrument orchestras, are distinguished by their potent combination of scholarship and sonic impact. Since founding the Gabrieli Consort & Players in 1982, McCreesh has specialised in “liturgical reconstructions”, recreating the music and atmosphere of large-scale Renaissance and Baroque ecclesiastical celebrations in performance and on recordings. The first of these, A Venetian Coronation, won a Gramophone Award in 1990. Since then he has mounted Venetian Easter Mass, Vespers and Christmas services, along with a Lutheran Christmas and Biber’s massive Missa Salisburgensis. He built up a substantial discography on DG Archiv, including Handel oratorios and a magnificent English-language recording of Haydn’s The Creation, before founding his own imprint, Winged Lion, for which he has recorded A New Venetian Coronation and An English Coronation, exploring music associated with the 20th-century monarchy. He’s also undertaken large-scale works such as Purcell’s King Arthur and The Fairy Queen, Haydn’s The Seasons, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Britten’s War Requiem.
- HOMETOWN
- London, England
- BORN
- 24 May 1960
- GENRE
- Classical