classical music: Paul McCreesh     classical music:     Paul McCreesh      SACD: The Classics Sampler [Hybrid SACD] Simon Keenlyside, Ludwig van Beethoven, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2004             Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco Charles Pott, Donald Greig, ... Archiv Produktion, 1996 Good Second Choice This recording was made only a year before La Fenice's "Giovanni Gabrieli: In Festo Sanctissimae Trinitatis". Thus for one year it was probably the best CD of Gabrieli on the market. It's still an attractive performance, with some tracks that are luscious and a few ...             Praetorius - Mass for Christmas Morning Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, ... Archiv, 1994 Oh my sweet Lord This is fully enthralling. As a young man I find it difficult to enjoy such music but I would give this album a thousands stars, thats all. this is genius.             Christmas in Rome [DVD Video] Deutsche Grammophon, 2007 A very traditional Christmas Well, if you've been hankering for a traditional Christmas, here it is. Spanning the years from the early fifth century, when the beautiful church of Santa Maria Maggiore was built in Rome (where these performances were recorded), to the mid-18th century (when the ...             Venetian Vespers (Monteverdi * Rigatti * Grandi * Cavalli) /Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh Research Composer, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, ... Polygram Records, 1993 An amazing reproduction of 17th century Vespers Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players have put together an entirely captivating re-creation of a Vespers service, the Catholic office of evening prayer, as it might have been performed at St. Mark's in Venice in the early 17th century. From the sacristy ...             A Venetian Coronation 1595 Charles Pott, Peter Harvey, ... Angel Records, 2002 Superb reconstruction, glorious sound, overwhelming beauty This 1989 recording for Virgin Classics is the one that made Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players famous. And what a superb disc it is! Although it is no longer possible to establish exactly what music was played at the coronation of the Doge of Venice in ...             Handel - Solomon / A. Scholl, Dam-Jensen, Hagley, Bickley, Gritton, Agnew, Harvey, Gabrieli Consort and ... George Frideric Handel, Paul McCreesh, ... Archiv Produktion, 1999 A successful adventure This was a surprise recording for me. I've never considered McCreesh to be an opera conductor. Not that I'm a major expert, but I do own a number of his recordings, and I've always thought of him as a conductor most celebrated for his liturgical performances. Well, ...             Biber: Missa Salisburgenis /Musica Antiqua Koln * Goebel * Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Pater Ignatius, ... Archiv Produktion, 1999 Majestic Music, Too Grand for a CD Salzburg has had a bad rap since the apotheosis of Mozart. He despised the place as a stiff-necked provincial backwater. A generation earlier, Salzburg was surely one of the greatest musical scenes of all time, with extravagant resources available to its episcopal ...             Haydn - The Creation / Piau, Padmore, Davies, Gabrieli Consort & Players, McCreesh Joseph Haydn, Paul McCreesh, ... ARCHIV Produktion, 2008 McCreesh & Co.: Haydn Creation : English Libretto: Most Modern Yet Timeless Okay first things first. This new recording of the English version of Haydn's Creation oratorio goes right to the fav shelf. There you will also find several German language versions, plus a few English ones. Old favs tend to be big bands with conductors like ...             The Baroque Christmas Album Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ... Archiv Produktion, 2005 5-PLUS Stars There are not many things in life that I would describe as just Gorgeous -- but this album is definitely one of them. The selections, the arrangements, the production quality, all are clean, yet lush -- simultaneously light and rich. The effect is wonderful. This ...             Handel: Messiah [Hybrid SACD] Neal Davies, George Frederick Handel, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2004 Sounds a bit flat for an SACD Although overall I enjoyed this CD, I was still a bit dissappointed by it. I found it to be surprisingly flat and lifeless sounding for an SACD. Instead of the crisp clear audio that I've come to expect from SACDs, it sounded duller than most standard CDs that I ...             Bach: St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion) Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabrieli Consort, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2003 Beautiful, dramatic, and introspective It's fascinating to me just how much vitriol there is in the classical music community. The performance of the great classics seems to be an almost life and death situation. There are many for whom there is only one right way to perform a work, their way, and ...             Monteverdi: Vespers Adriano Banchieri, Giovanni Paolo Cima, ... Archiv Produktion, 2006 Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort & Players present a new recording of one of the early masterpieces of the Baroque era, Monteverdi's Vespro della beata vergine, a collection of psalm settings for Vespers published in 1610. With its structural clarity and focus on the beauty of the human voice, it outshines much of the sacred music of the ...             Gluck: Paride ed Elena Christoph Willibald Gluck, Paul McCreesh, ... Archiv Produktion, 2005 Luminous beauty Gluck's fortunes have risen dramatically over the last decade, with new recordings of almost all his major operas and a few rarities too. "Paride ed Elena", his third and least known Italian "reform" opera, written for Vienna in 1770, is aptly described by Paul ...             Biber: Missa Salisburgensis Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bartholomaus Riedl, ... Archiv Produktion, 2003          products you might be interested in   search for classical music coronation, matthäus-passion, monteverdi, praetorius, salisburgenis, salisburgensis      toavi.com    web randomly chosen DVD: The Mask (New Line Platinum Series)