A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation

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Already in Gibbons’s Drop, Drop, Slow, Tears there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry of Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013 More…

Release Date: 5th Mar 2012
Catalogue No: SIGCD281
Label: Signum
Series: Winged Lion
Length: 77 minutes

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Gibbons, O: Drop, drop, slow tears

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

Walton: A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears'

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

White, Robert: Christe, Qui Lux Es & Dies (I)

Work length4:30

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

MacMillan: A Child's Prayer

Work length4:19

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

Sheppard, J: In Manus Tuas (I): In Manus Tuas (I)

Work length4:11

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

Dove: Into Thy Hands

Work length8:18

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

Morley: In Manus Tuas (I): Funeral Sentences

Work length10:26

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

Elgar: In Manus Tuas (I): They Are At Rest

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

Howells: Requiem

Work length24:04

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

I. Salvator Mundi

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II. The Lord Is My Shepherd

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III. Requiem Aeternam (1)

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IV. I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills

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V. Requiem Aeternam (2)

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VI. I Heard A Voice From Heaven

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Parry: Lord, let me know mine end (No. 6 from Songs of Farewell)

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Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh

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Continuing Signum’s new partnership with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort following the triumphant success of Berlioz’s 'Grande Messe des Morts' (SIGCD280 –, their next release will be a recording of the groups' renowned a cappella programme of music for mourning and consolation. This is a beautifully poignant programme of British choral music, including works by composers as diverse as Morley and Dove, Sheppard and Walton and featuring Howells’ sublime 'Requiem'.

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Christmas Issue 2013

Already in Gibbons’s Drop, Drop, Slow, Tears there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry of Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort.

May 2012

there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort bring to this beautifully planned and executed programme...There's also much emotion in the performances. McCreesh's choice of sopranos who either have little vibrato or can eliminate it when requested has a palpable impact...This is a superlative, unmissable issue.

April 2012

The singing is immaculate...MacMillan's music is as technically demanding as it is emotionally powerful and it is a a wonder that these exceptional young singers make it all sound so effortless.

May 2012

Any disc subtitled 'Music of Mourning & Consolation' is not going to be a bundle of laughs. But Paul McCreesh has devised such a satisfying programme of mostly short a cappella pieces that the effect is the reverse of depressing.

11th March 2012

This is a concept album, a sequence of purgative music on the theme of death by a wide range of British composers from the English Renaissance to today.

17th March 2012

For me, the highlight is Herbert Howells’s Requiem, grief seeping from every cadence. It’s beautifully sung by Paul McCreesh’s Gabrieli Consort in an acoustic that sounds aptly like a tomb but is, in fact, Ely Cathedral.

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