Monteverdi & Gabrieli: Easter Celebration at St. Mark’s in Venice 1600

Gabrieli, Giovanni, Monteverdi, Claudio

Ensemble Capriccio Armonico

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Any listener who has heard the punchy, rousing and original account of Monteverdi’s Vespers released in 2016 by these forces on Brilliant Classics (BC95188) will be keen to hear music from the same source performed with similar vitality and attention to historical detail. Federico Bardazzi duly obliges with this recreation of Easter at the Basilica San Marco, around the year 1600. Chants alternate with spectacular, antiphonal toccatas and canzonas which bounce off the walls of the generous church acoustic, as well as a slight but still exuberant sonata by Giovanni Paolo Cima. Enclosed within are the separate movements of the four-part Mass by Monteverdi, and the liturgical reconstruction concludes with a setting ofthe Ave maris stella which, like the Mass, is to be found in Monteverdi’s collection of Selva morale e spirituale, no less treasurable in its way than the better-known Vespers compilation.

Works:

• Cima, G: Sonata a Tre in A minor
• Gabrieli, G: Canzon I 'La Spiritata'
• Gabrieli, G: Canzon II a 4
• Gabrieli, G: Canzon III a 4
• Gabrieli, G: Canzona II a 4, Ch. 187
• Gabrieli, G: Ricercare
• Gabrieli, G: Toccata del secondo tuono
• Monteverdi: Ave maris stella, SV 206:12
• Monteverdi: Cantate Domino
• Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum in sancta Eius
• Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale (excerpts)

CD x 1

Brilliant Classics

13.11.19

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