The Gabrieli Consort & Players continue their series of award-winning collaborations with the National Forum of Music, Wrocław, Poland with a new version of Haydn’s great oratorio The Seasons. This recording is the first to feature the large orchestral forces that Haydn called for, including a string section of 60, 8 horns and a choir of 70—thrilling stuff.
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'McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a 'Seasons' that thrillingly catches both the work’s bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime. And for sheer sonic splendour i ...
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