Silence and Music
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
Sometimes the best discoveries in music aren’t pieces that you’ve never heard before, but those you have, made new by remarkable interpretations…At the recital’s heart is a breath-catching performance...
Silence and Music
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
Sometimes the best discoveries in music aren’t pieces that you’ve never heard before, but those you have, made new by remarkable interpretations…At the recital’s heart is a breath-catching performance...
About
This programme explores that vast twentieth-century secular English choral repertoire which goes under the generic title ‘partsongs’. It is an extraordinarily rich repertoire to which almost all the famous composers contributed. Buried amongst vast quantities of slightly twee pastoralism – the much-derided “cow-pat” school – are to be found many settings of glorious poetry, forming a corpus of sublime twentieth-century madrigals at least as fine as their famous renaissance forebears. However, this programme has another particular theme: how poets and composers reflect upon the natural world as a metaphor for our own emotional experience. At the heart of this programme is the complex relationship between man and nature, the bitter-sweetness of a radiant and beautiful dawn creating the same unbearable sadness of a ravishing song, and both with intimations of mortality.
Contents and tracklist
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
- Gabrieli
- Paul McCreesh
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineNovember 2017Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's ChoiceOctober 2017
November 2017
Sometimes the best discoveries in music aren’t pieces that you’ve never heard before, but those you have, made new by remarkable interpretations…At the recital’s heart is a breath-catching performance of James MacMillan’s Burns setting The Gallant Weaver…This is a beautifully constructed programme, sung with consummate assurance and self-effacing artistry.
October 2017
With such highly performed music there’s much to be said for performances that keep things clean, understated. The musical care and the easy, unforced shaping of lines from the Gabrielis is all the ornament works like Elgar’s There is sweet music and Howells’s The summer is coming need…a disc that takes the part-song into the 21st century not only in repertoire but also in style.
October 2017
The singing is consistently excellent throughout... This is a perceptively assembled programme of marvellous English part songs.
8th October 2017
The Gabrieli’s latest themed CD, beautifully produced in all respects, celebrates the concision and intensity of 20th-century British part songs...Probably best in small doses. These miniatures are rich, each in need of proper savouring.
