The Road to Paradise
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice
The recital's radiant heart is Sheppard's Media Vite, but there are more highlights to come, including an outstanding reading of Holst's Nunc Dimittis, the flowing textures of Harris's Bring...
The Road to Paradise
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice
The recital's radiant heart is Sheppard's Media Vite, but there are more highlights to come, including an outstanding reading of Holst's Nunc Dimittis, the flowing textures of Harris's Bring...
About
A cappella choral music by English composers of the 16th is contrasted with works by 20th-century composers – this unique programme depicts the desire for spiritual enlightenment that was the driving force behind the medieval pilgrimage. In medieval times, making a pilgrimage to a holy place was the ambition of many Christians, for whom it was regarded as the symbolic enactment of a lifetime’s journey to a sacred resting place, undertaken through considerable physical effort.
Contents and tracklist
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
trad.:
Clangat pastor in tuba. Responsory and Prose for the Feast of St Thomas à Becket
Work length5:32
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Recorded: 2006-07-14
- Recording Venue: St. Alban's, Holborn, London
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineJuly 2007Choral & Song Choice
August 2007
The recital's radiant heart is Sheppard's Media Vite, but there are more highlights to come, including an outstanding reading of Holst's Nunc Dimittis, the flowing textures of Harris's Bring Us, O Lord and Howells's Take Him, Earth. Tavener's Song for Athene is very moving, fits the concept of the album well and is beautifully performed.
July 2007
The artfully resonant recording rings the singers with a translucent halo without quite dispelling the sense of virtuoso voices in concert.
