Silence and Music

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: SIGCD490
Label: Signum
Length: 67 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

November 2017

Choral & Song Choice
Presto Editor's Choice

October 2017

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Stanford: Eight Part Songs, Op. 119: No. 3, The Blue Bird

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Elgar: There is sweet music, Op. 53 No. 1

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Howells: The Summer is coming

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Grainger: Brigg Fair

Work length2:58

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Vaughan Williams: Bushes and Briars

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Vaughan Williams: The Winter is gone

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

MacMillan: The Gallant Weaver

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Dove: Who killed Cock Robin?

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Grainger: The Three Ravens

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Britten: The Evening Primrose

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Warlock: 3 Dirges of Webster: No. 1, All the Flowers of the Spring

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Elgar: 4 Part Songs, Op. 53: No. 4, Owls (An Epitaph)

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

Vaughan Williams: Rest

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Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh

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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.

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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.

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