Venetian Church Music
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Composer or Director: Dario Castello, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Legrenzi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Reflexe
Magazine Review Date: 8/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 73
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 754117-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Intonationi, Movement: del nono tono |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer Taverner Players |
Symphoniae sacrae, liber secundus, Movement: In ecclesiis, 14vv |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Symphoniae sacrae, liber secundus, Movement: Magnificat, 14vv |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Canzoni et Sonate, Movement: Canzon VIII, a 8 |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer Taverner Players |
Fuga IX toni |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer Taverner Players |
Adoramus te, Christe |
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Claudio Monteverdi, Composer Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Exulta, filia Sion |
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Claudio Monteverdi, Composer Emily Van Evera, Soprano Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Currite populi |
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer Jeffrey Thomas, Tenor |
Christe, adoramus te |
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Claudio Monteverdi, Composer Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Motets, Book 1, Movement: O quam tu pulchra es (3vv) |
Alessandro Grandi, Composer
Alessandro Grandi, Composer Andrew Parrott, Conductor Jeffrey Thomas, Tenor Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Movement: Sonata seconda |
Dario Castello, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Dario Castello, Composer Taverner Players |
(16) Sonatas da chiesa, Movement: La Bevilaqua |
Giovanni Legrenzi, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Giovanni Legrenzi, Composer Taverner Players |
Crucifixus a 6 |
Antonio Lotti, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Antonio Lotti, Composer Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Crucifixus a 10 |
Antonio Lotti, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Antonio Lotti, Composer Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Clarae stellae |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Andrew Parrott, Conductor Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Randi Stene, Mezzo soprano Taverner Choir Taverner Consort Taverner Players |
Author: Iain Fenlon
One of the delights of the present record is that it brings to life a well-chosen selection of these less familiar corners of the Venetian musical world, in particular some intriguing examples from some of the largely forgotten moments in the tradition of instrumental music. There is, for example, Dario Castello's Sonata seconda, a tightly-constructed and economical piece which is here given a virtuosic and at times almost rhapsodic performance by John Holloway. But at the centre of this record is the Venetian choral tradition, and appropriately enough it opens with one of the great monuments of that repertory, Giovanni Gabrieli's In ecclesiis. It is interesting to compare this interpreatation with Andrew Parrot's 1978 L'Oiseau-Lyre Florilegium recording (nla), also made with the Taverners; the new recording gains from a more leisurely and expansive view of the work (at 8'14'' it is more than a minute longer than the older recording) which leads to a performance that is at the same time both stately and sensuous. As with Gabrieli's Canzon VIII a 8, there is some sensational passagework from the cornettists here, a good demonstration of how rapidly standards have changed in this area of period-instrument performance in the last decade or so. In general terms a very high level of achievement is displayed throughout in a sequence of intelligent and carefully-controlled performances that nevertheless sometimes seems to lack the vital ingredient of musical flair.'
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