On the way to Paradise with the Gabrieli Consort

The Road to Paradise. Thomas Tallis: Miserere nostri; Anon. Chant: Jacet granum, Clangat pastor; Robert Parsons: Ave Maria; Benjamin Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin; William Byrd: Christe qui es lux es et dies; John Sheppard: Media vita in more sumus; Richard Rodney Bennet: A Good-Night; John Tavener: Song for Athene; John Sheppard: In pace in idipsum; Gustav Holst: Nunc dimittis; William Harris: Bring us, O Lord God; Herbert Howells: Take him, Earth, for cherishing; Anon. Chant: In paradisum. Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh, executive producer: Christopher Alder; balance engineer: Neil Hutchinson. One CD, 74’11’’ minutes; recorded July 2006, The Parish Church of S. Alban the Martyr, Holborn, (London); Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 6605

‘What is the way to Paradise?’ is a question of great importance in many religions and cultures around the world. The present CD recording presents its own ‘Road to Paradise’, based on the traditions and culture of Christian Western Europe.

In 2005 John Eliot Gardiner recorded his musical Pilgrimage to Santiago [see the review]; and indeed, Paul McCreesh explains in the notes to his recording that the Road to Paradise CD is also linked to the Santiago pilgrims. The Gabrieli Consort was asked to give a series of concerts along the pilgrim route to Santiago in the same year, 2005, and this appears to have been the initial idea for and basis of the present recording. According to McCreesh in his liner notes (p. 2), the programme on this CD reflects a “central paradox”: the combination of the sorrows and fears of death with the prospect of…

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