A Venetian Christmas (works by Gabrieli and de Rore)

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A Venetian Christmas (works by Gabrieli and de Rore)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh

[ Archiv / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 25 November 2001

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Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001)

"A very different Christmas disc that finds Paul McCreesh on homeground in a superb and majestic Venetian musical reconstruction."
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001)

After the outstanding success of Venetian Vespers and, more recently, Music for San Rocco, Paul McCreesh recreates another Venetian sacred spectacle, with this Christmas Mass from San Marco.

The ordinary of the mass will be Cipriano de Rore's sumptuous setting based upon "Praeter rerum serium" by Josquin. It is sung by 14 male voices a cappella.

Interspersed are magnificent polychoral canzonas, sonatas and motets by Giovanni Gabrieli. The instrumental music is for strings, cornetts, sackbuts and organs, while the motets - which include "Audite Principes" and the ravishing "O Jesu mi Dulcissime" - are for cappella alone or cappella with instrumental choirs.

As would have been customary, the Mass will commence with a processional and chant, and will include the brilliant fanfares for natural trumpets that always accompanied the presence of the Doge at San Marco.

Tracks:

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553-1612)
Intonazione del undecimo tono, C 249
[0:30]
Audite principes a 16, C 123
[5:22]

Gregorian Chant
First Mass for Christmas (Erste Messe an Weihnachten/Première
Introit "Dominus dixit" - Psalm "Quare fremuerunt"

Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-c.1565)
Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Kyrie
Gloria

Gregorian Chant
First Mass for Christmas (Erste Messe an Weihnachten/Première
Collect "Dominus vobiscum - Deus, qui hanc sacratissimam noctem"
Prophecy: Haec dicit dominus (Isaiah, IX, 2,6,7)
Epistle "Lectio epistolae - Carissime: apparuit"

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553-1612)
Canzon noni toni a 12, C 183
[3:26]

Gregorian Chant
First Mass for Christmas (Erste Messe an Weihnachten/Première
Gospel "Dominus vobiscum - Sequentia sancti Evangelii - In illo tempore"

Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-c.1565)
Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Credo

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553-1612)
Intonazione del settimo tono, C 245
[0:30]
Salvator noster a 15, C 80
[4:10]

Gregorian Chant
First Mass for Christmas (Erste Messe an Weihnachten/Première
Preface "Per omnia saecula - Dominus vobiscum - Sursum corda" Preface proper to First Mass of Christmas "Ver dignum est"

Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-c.1565)
Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Sanctus - Benedictus
Timothy Robert
Toccata: Improvisation on a Theme of Frescobaldi

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553-1612)
O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8, C 56
[6:14]

Gregorian Chant
First Mass for Christmas (Erste Messe an Weihnachten/Première
Canon in Festis Duplicibus "Pater Noster"

Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-c.1565)
Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Agnus Dei

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553-1612)
Canzon duodecimi toni (no.3) a 10, C 179

Gregorian Chant
First Mass for Christmas (Erste Messe an Weihnachten/Première
Post Communion "Dominus vobiscum - Oremus. Da nobis, quaesumus" - Blessing "Humiliate vos ad benedictionem"

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553-1612)
Quem Vidistis pastores a 12, C 77