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McMaestro on CD recordings by Paul
McCreesh
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2007 The Road to Paradise  As
always, the Gabrieli Consort's singing is of the highest quality
and the recording is impeccable. Financial Times
2006 ... the perfect blend
of sensuality and chastity... ravishing
BBC Music Magazine Disc of the MonthTimes
Classical CD of the Week
 CD 477 6147
DGG mini-site
HERE
2005
 includes J Haydn: Scena di Berenice and L van
Beethoven: Ah,
perfido
Camilla Tilling,
Sarah Connolly, Timothy Robinson, Neal Davies
McCreesh propels his period-instrument
band and incisive choir
with feverish energy. There's never a
dull moment. Yet he also has
the imagination and control to conjure up
delectable oases of calm.
The Times, on the live performance
2005 Gramophone Editor's Choice  C W Gluck: Paride
ed Elena2 Magdalena Kožená (Paris), Susan Gritton (Helen), Carolyn Sampson (Amore), Gillian Webster (Athene) Live performance recorded at All Saints Church, London, October 2003 Session
audio tracks online at in
the
studio at DGG
Click here to read Paul McCreesh on this work, at DGG Concert performance reviews here a revelatory recording... musically glorious The Telegraph
Kožená
is out of this world...
it's hard to imagine this set ever being surpassed
The Gramophone
one of the most thrilling evenings I have spent in the theatre in many years The Spectator
2001, 2007
J S
Bach: Easter
Oratorio, Magnificat Due for re-release by DGG 15 May
as 477 635-91998
Diapason
d'or...
 DG Archiv 457 631 2 invaluable and
unequivocally a musical triumph
Daily Telegraph
brilliant, beautiful... delivered with exquisite intelligence and imagination Classic
CD
... 2003
Number 3 in iTunes classical Top 100 March 2005 Gramophone Editor's Choice DG
Archiv 474 200 2 fleetfooted stylishness
Toronto
Star
a performance of
unapologetic sensual indulgence
Irish Times
... 1993 Gramophone award BBC
Music magazine
R
Cavalli, C Monteverdi: Venetian Vespers  recording now deleted this
is an heroic
achievement of the highest possible order
Gramophone
..2001 Editor's Choice: superb and majestic musical reconstruction Gramophone
.. ....
2004 Number One classical album on iTunes UK
..... I
don’t think
we
have ever
recorded in a studio
... 1996 
G
Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco
1608
DG Archiv 449 180 2 for the sheer splendour of the music, and the excellence of the performances, this recording is a
must, a real five-star achievement
Gramophone
..1996
G Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco
VIDEO  Virgin
Veritas VC7911102
McCreesh's grasp of Venetian colour is so impressive - a fine achievement Gramophone close your eyes and it's close to time travel The Independent, 2005 concert review 2002 Gramophone Editor's choice  N Gombert et al: Music for the Duke of LermaDG Archiv 471 694 2 deserves
a hundred stars
Goldberg
compelling conviction
Gramophone
1997 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Danish Grammy. recording now deleted
McCreesh is a natural dramatist, his expression candid and immediate. One
of the best
Messiahs
around.
Gramophone
.....Victorian sentimentality, period instrument preciosity and late 20th-century super-cool are all stripped away with a characteristic blowtorch of imagination and daring The Times .. ... . 2004
the best
Act Three before
Wagner
..McCreesh
conjures power and glory
The Times
an outstanding achievement. Many Handelians
have claimed that
Saul
is to music what King Lear is
to drama. Finally, they have been proved right.The
Guardian, review of the London Prom
.... 1999 Gramophone award Sunday Times Record of the year
some
of Handel's most erotic
music
....
McCreesh has the exact measure of Solomon's unique musical chemistry The Times
2000  
G
F
Handel. TheodoraDG Archiv 469 061 2 this beautiful new version of Theodora easily displaces all previous recordings Sunday Times
a superlative reading
of this great
work...
fine
and sensitive rather than merely dazzling
Stanley
Sadie
....
..1996
... an object lesson in how to achieve blend and balance. I have no more superlatives. Buy this disc. Gramophone
 
C
de
Morales: Music for the Feast of
St
Isidore.......
1998
Cannes Classical Award 
C
de
Morales: Requiem for Philip IIDG Archiv 457 597 2 recording now deleted
1993
G P da
Palestrina: Missa Hodie Christus
Natus Est
DG Archiv 437 833 2
recording now deleted
1993
Christmas in Rome:
Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est
and other works
 dvd 
video  dvd.. .... . 1994 Echo award Edison award Gran Premio del Disco Ritmo Studio award convincing
and rewarding... another major achievement
Gramophone
recording now deleted
..
.. 1995 ......... Gramophone Editor's choice 
1999
the atmosphere and evident scholarship of the McCreesh make it the one to have Daily Telegraph  .. music
is a great
open door
...
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..  The clip playing on this page is part of the great elegy for the slain Saul and his son Jonathan, from Paul McCreesh's recording of Saul . Susan Gritton sings Saul's daughter, Merab, and Andreas Scholl, David. If you have rights in this clip and object to our playing it here, please contact us and we will remove it immediately. |
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