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Venetian Vespers

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93870

Barcode: 5028421938707

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 27th October 2008

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Contents

Artists

The Gabrieli Consort

Conductor

Paul McCreesh

Artists

The Gabrieli Consort

Conductor

Paul McCreesh

About

Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players have become famous for their recreations of the great liturgical set pieces of the Venetian 16th and early 17th centuries.

These recordings made by Deutsche Grammophon in the 1990s are state of the art and were critically acclaimed.

In this 5CD set we are taken back to St Mark’s Basilica, the most important church in the city-state, and the Confraternity of San Rocco, for which Giovanni Gabrieli and his colleague the falsetto Bartolemeo Barbarino composed remarkable collection of instrumental and vocal music. This recording includes wide range of Gabrieli’s work, from intimate motets, to the reconstructed glory of the 33 part Magnificat On CDs 1 and 2 we are in St Mark’s at Easter time in 1600. The smell of incense hangs in the chill air of the basilica and the huge building resonates with sound of voices – the service has begun. The central work is the Missa Congratulamini mihi by Lassus. As was customary, the Credo has been omitted, and substituted with non-liturgical vocal works by composers such as Giovanni and Alessandro Gabrieli, Bendinelli, and Merulo. Organ toccatas, Sacrae symphonea and other vocal works are placed between the movements of the Mass. The Venetian Vespers on CDs 3 and 4 again draws on music from a variety of composers as services such as the vespers at this time were often made up of movements of Mass and Vespers settings by different composers. The composer of the most famous setting of the Vespers, Claudio Monteverdi features here with his Messa et salmi, alongside Banchieri, Cavalli, and Giovanni Gabrieli.

Gramophone reviewing Music for San Rocco said ‘It is hard to imagine this fine recording of Gabrieli’s music being superseded for some time to come. For the sheer splendour of the music, and the excellence of the performances, this recording is a must, a real five-star achievement’. January 1997

Venetian Vespers Gramophone review ‘Among the performers there is a feeling of common enterprise that is hard to describe, but which sets this record apart from so many others where the overall impression is of a sequence of unrelated pieces given a disjointed series of separate performances…. There is some carefully thought out and gracefully shaped instrumental playing…. In short this is an heroic achievement of the highest possible order’. June 1993

Venetian Easter Mass, Gramophone review. ‘ The impact is tremendous in some items…as usual, the singing and playing are of a high order..’ July 1997


Tracklisting

CD 1

Venetian Vespers
Venetian Vespers (Beginning)
Sacristy bell

After GIOVANNI GABRIELI (c 1553–1612)
Organ: Intonazione
Versicle & Response: Deus in adiutorium/Domine ad adiuvandum
Antiphon: Angelus

GIOVANNI ANTONIO RIGATTI (1615–1649)
Psalm: Dixit Dominus (2 choirs)

ALESSANDRO GRANDI (?1586–1630)
Motet: O intemerata
Antiphon: Beata es Maria

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643)
Psalm: Laudate pueri

ADRIANO BANCHIERI (1568–1643)
Organ: Suonata prima
Antiphon: Beatam me dicent

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643)
Psalm: Laetatus sum

GIACOMO FINETTI (fl 1605–1631)
Motet: O Maria, quae rapis corda hominum
Antiphon: Haec est quae nescavit

GIOVANNI ANTONIO RIGATTI (1615–1649)
Psalm: Nisi Dominus

ADRIANO BANCHIERI (1568–1643)
Organ: Dialogo secondo
Antiphon: Ante thronum

FRANCESCO CAVALLI (1602–1676)
Psalm: Lauda Jerusalem

ALESSANDRO GRANDI (?1586–1630)
Motet: O quam tu pulchra es
 

CD 2

Venetian Vespers (Conclusion)
Organ: Praeambulum (Anon.)
Chapter: Ecce virgo

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643)
Hymn: Deus qui mundum crimine iacentem
Versicle & Response: Ave Maria/ Dominus tecum
Antiphon: Spiritus Sanctus

GIOVANNI ANTONIO RIGATTI (1615–1649)
Magnificat

BIAGIO MARINI (c.1587–1663)
Sonata con tre violini in eco
Collect: Dominus vobiscum… Deus, qui de beatae Mariae
Dismissal: Dominus vobiscum…Benedicamus Domino

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643)
Motet: Laudate Dominum

After GIOVANNI BATTISTA FASOLO (c. 1600–after 1659)
Organ: Intonazione (excerpt)

GIOVANNI ANTONIO RIGATTI (1615–1649)
Motet: Salve Regina
 

CD 3

Venetian Easter Mass (Beginning)

CLAUDIO MERULO (1533–1604)
Tocca prima del quinto tono (excerpt)

ANDREA GABRIELI (1533–1585)
Maria stabat ad monumentum, a 6
The knocking on the door:Quem quaeritis (chant)
Tocada…con Vitoria (6 trumpets)
Surrexit Christus (chant)

GIOVANNI GABRIELI (c.1553/56–1612)
Surrexit Christus, a 11

INTROITUS (chant): Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia

ANDREA GABRIELI (1533–1585)
Intonazione del quinto tono

KYRIE: ORLANDE DE LASSUS (1532–1594)
Missa ‘Congratulamini mihi’: Kyrie, a 6

GLORIA: ORLANDE DE LASSUS
Missa ‘Congratulamini mihi’: Gloria, a 6

ORATIO: Dominus vobiscum (Chant)

EPISTOLA (Chant)
Lectio Epistolae beati Pauli Apostoli ad Corinthos Fratres: Expurgate vetus fermentum

GRADUALE: GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Canzon VIII, a 8

SEQUENTIA:Victimae paschali laudes (Chant)

EVANGELIUM:Sancti Evangelisti secundum Marcum (Chant)

OFFERTORIUM: GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Hic est filius Dei, a 18

PREFATIO: Per omnia saecula saeculorum… Dignum est justum est (Chant)

SANCTUS: ORLANDE DE LASSUS
Missa ‘Congratulamini mihi’: Sanctus, a 6

ELEVATIO: GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Sonata octavi toni, a 12

PATER NOSTER (Chant)
 

CD 4
Venetian Easter Mass (Conclusion)

AGNUS DEI ORLANDE DE LASSUS
Missa ‘Congratulamini mihi’: Agnus Dei, a 6

COMMUNIO

GIOVANNI GABRIELI (c. 1553/56–1612)
Canzon XVII, a 12

POSTCOMMUNIO: Dominus vobiscum…(Chant)
ITE, MISSA EST (Chant)
BENEDICTIO: Humilitate vos ad benedictionem (Chant)
INDULGENTIA: Illustrissimus et Reverendissimus in Christo pater (Chant)

ANTIPHONA MARIAE

GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Regina coeli, a 12

ORATIO: Gaude et laetare Virgo Maria, alleluia (Chant)

CONGEDO

CLAUDIO MERULO
Toccata settima del ottavo tono (excerpt)

GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Sonata con voce: Dulcis Jesu, a 20
 

CD 5
Music for San Rocco (1608)
GIOVANNI GABRIELI (c.1553/56–1612)
Toccata, a 4
In ecclesiis, a 14
Sonata No.19, a 15
Suscipe, clementissime Deus, a 12
Canzona No.14, a 10
Buccinate in neomenia tuba, a 19
Intonazione del nono tono
Domine Deus meus, a 6
Audi, dulcis amica mea (Bartolomeo Barbarino)
Sonata No.21 con tre violini
Ardens est cor meum (Bartolomeo Barbarino)
Timor et tremor, a 6
Intonazione duodecimo tono
Jubilate Deo, a 10
Sonata No.18, a 14
Misericordia tuo, Domine, a 12
Sonata No.20, a 22
Magnificat, a 33

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