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Gabrieli Consort & Players

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The Gabrieli Consort & Players are now celebrating their 25th anniversary season. Initially recognized for their mould-breaking reconstructions of music for historical occasions, they have gone on to captivate audiences worldwide with their bold readings of the masterworks of the Baroque and Renaissance.

More recently, in partnership with Martin Randall Music Management, they have pioneered new areas of 'cultural tourism' in creating festivals of music in historic centres, including Venice, Rome, Naples, Leipzig, and northern Spain. Summer 2006 saw the Gabrielis in residency at both the La Chaise Dieu Festival in France and the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.

For over ten years the Gabrieli Consort & Players have recorded exclusively with Deutsche Grammophon Archiv. Their first release on the label, Venetian Vespers, won the 1993 Gramophone Award, and subsequent recordings of music by Palestrina, Praetorius, Morales, Purcell, Handel and Bach have won several major European prizes. They are well known for their vivid and moving readings of the Bach masterworks, and have recorded the Easter Oratorio, Magnificat and St Matthew Passion

The Gabrieli Consort & Players are currently expanding into several new areas including the Classical repertoire. Their first opera recording, Gluck's Paride ed Elena with Magdalena Kozená, was issued in 2005 to great critical acclaim. The ensemble's recording of Monteverdi's Vespers was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as "compelling... superbly effective... marvellously fresh". Their latest disc is the specially devised choral programme The Road to Paradise.