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Release Date: Friday 2 May 2025
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On this 2012 recording, previously available on Decca, Robert Hollingworth leads his celebrated ensemble, I Fagiolini, on a journey unearthing incredible lost works from the late Renaissance and early Baroque, adding to their acclaimed 'Colossal Baroque' series on CORO.
I Fagiolini's recording remains the only version of Viadana's spectacular Vespers as well as of Giovanni Gabrieli's unparalleled Magnificat for seven choirs.
Viadana
1. Versicle & Response: Deus, in adiutorium meum
2. Antiphon I: Dum esset Rex in accubitu suo / Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus
Bartolomeo Barbarino
3. Exaudi, Deus
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
4. Antiphon II: Laeva eius sub capite meo / Psalm 112: Laudate, pueri
Andrea Gabrieli
5. Benedictus Dominus Deus Sabaoth
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
6. Antiphon III: Nigra sum sed formosa / Psalm 121: Laetatus sum
7. O dulcissima Maria
8. Antiphon IV: Iam hiems transiit / Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
9. Quae est ista
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
10. Antiphon V: Speciosa facta es / Psalm 147: Lauda, Ierusalem
Andrea Gabrieli
11. Toccata del 9. Tono
Claudio Monteverdi; Francesco Soriano
12. Capitulum / Hymn: Ave, Maris Stella
Plainchant
13. Versicle & Response 'Dignare me'
Giovanni Gabrieli (Reconstructed by Hugh Keyte)
14. Magnificat à20.à28. Con il sicut locutus. In ecco
Claudio Monteverdi
15. Ab aeterno ordinata sum
Plainchant
16. Versicle & Response and Collect of the feast
Giovanni Gabrieli (Reconstructed by Hugh Keyte)
17. Extraliturgical Motet: In ecclesiis