Catalogue # SIGCD287

The Gabrieli Consort and Players return to the programme that put them on the musical map when it was originally recorded and released in 1990: ‘A Venetian Coronation 1595’ is a musical re-creation evoking the grand pageantry of the Coronation Mass for Venetian Doge Marino Grimani. His love of ceremony and state festivals fuelled an extraordinary musical bounty during his reign and formed the background to the musical riches of the period, especially to the works of Giovanni Gabrieli. With cornetts, sackbuts and an all-male consort, Paul McCreesh fully exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music and captivates the audience in a theatrical and ceremonious performance.

Two decades later, the Gabrieli’s ‘New Venetian Coronation’ takes advantage of huge developments in early instruments, performance techniques and research into the pieces that were on the original (as well as advances in recording techniques).

A New Venetian Coronation, 1595

1. The procession: bells intrada tertia / sexta / septima, trumpet sonata no. 333 Hans Leo Hassler, Cesare Bendinelli
2. Toccata secondo tono Giovanni Gabrieli
3. Introit
4. Arrival of the doge: toccata 26 Cesare Bendinelli
5. Intonazione primo tono Giovanni Gabrieli
6. Kyrie à 5 Andrea Gabrieli
7. Christe à 8 Andrea Gabrieli
8. Kyrie à 12 Andrea Gabrieli
9. Gloria à 16 Andrea Gabrieli
10. Collect
11. Epistle
12. Gradual: canzona [13] à 12 Giovanni Gabrieli
13. Gospel
14. Intonazione settimo ton Andrea Gabrieli
15. Offertory: deus qui beatum marcum à 10 Giovanni Gabrieli
16. Preface
17. Sanctus & benedictus à 12 Andrea Gabrieli
18. Elevation: sarasinetta 2 Cesare Bendinelli
19. Canzona [16] à 15 Giovanni Gabrieli
20. Pater noster
21. Agnus dei
22. Intonazione quinto tono alla quarta bassa Giovanni Gabrieli
23. Communion: o sacrum convivium à 5 Andrea Gabrieli
24. Canzona [9] à 10 Giovanni Gabrieli
25. Post communion prayer
26. Sonata la leona Cesario Gussago
27. Omnes gentes à 16 Giovanni Gabrieli

Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh