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The Choral - Reflections on Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
12th Nov 2025
As Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner's film about a Yorkshire choral society performing Elgar's masterpiece during World War One hits UK cinemas, artists including Edward Gardner, Roderick Williams and opera director Stephen Langridge unpack what makes the piece so special for them...
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Paul McCreesh on Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
2nd May 2024
Following the release of his latest project with Gabrieli, the conductor talks about the differences that period instruments bring to the music, the extensive work he carries out in rehearsal with singers, and the importance of the Gabrieli Roar scheme in involving young people in classical music.
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Paul McCreesh conducts Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
26th Apr 2024
Using instruments from around the time of the work's premiere in 1900, Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli offer an illuminating recording that not only provides great textual clarity but also shows off the fine details of Elgar's orchestration.
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Purcell's Fairy Queen from Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli
10th Apr 2020
A glorious return to the Restoration stage, with a semi-opera if anything even more vivid than King Arthur - featuring a cast of gods, fairies, peasants, poets and... monkeys?
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Purcell's King Arthur from Gabrieli and Paul McCreesh
25th Oct 2019
Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli give a sparkling performance of Purcell's patriotic extravaganza, from a new edition prepared by Christopher Suckling.
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Paul McCreesh on An English Coronation
1st May 2019
The conductor talks to David about his latest recording with Gabrieli, which weaves music and readings from the coronations of four British monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI, and Elizabeth II) into a composite ceremony, recorded in Ely Cathedral.
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
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Paul McCreesh conducts Haydn's The Seasons
24th Mar 2017
Katherine listens to Paul McCreesh's boisterous and vivid recording of Haydn's The Seasons, with the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and Choir.
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Paul McCreesh on Haydn's The Seasons
16th Mar 2017
David talks to the conductor about his new super-sized recording of Haydn's pastoral oratorio with the Gabrieli Consort and Wrocław Baroque Orchestra.
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Paul McCreesh on Handel’s 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato'
8th May 2015
David talks to the conductor about Handel's tripartite work, which weighs up the appeals of the hedonistic and the intellectual lifestyles in a kind of musical argument.
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Mendelssohn's Elijah from McCreesh
27th Aug 2012
A super-sized, historically-aware account of Mendelssohn’s Old Testament oratorio (with Simon Keenlyside offering a nuanced portrayal of the irascible prophet) sets a new benchmark for this oft-recorded work, with an orchestra of almost 100 and a choir of over 300!
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Two terrific Italian Renaissance reconstructions
18th Jun 2012
A new Venetian Coronation from Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, and a reconstruction of a typical Italian Vespers programme from circa 1612 from Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini.
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Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts from Paul McCreesh
3rd Oct 2011
With a massed choir of English and Polish singers and an orchestra which deploys as many authentic nineteenth-century instruments as possible, McCreesh plays up not only the sound and fury of Berlioz’s super-sized Requiem but also the astonishing range of textures which the young composer summons.
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Stunning new Haydn Creation from Paul McCreesh
17th Mar 2008
An ‘uplifting, overwhelming, charming and comforting’ account of Haydn’s most popular oratorio, sung in a new English adaptation, with soloists including Miah Persson and Mark Padmore.
