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Archer, M: | Away in a manger | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV65 'Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen': Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' Cantata BWV36 'Schwingt freudig euch empor': Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland | Cruger: | Wie soll ich dich empfangen Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen | Gabrieli, G: | Canzona No. 1 Canzona No. 2 Canzon I 'La Spiritata' | Gesius: | Hosianna, dem Sohne Davids | Guilmant: | Tochter Zion, freue dich | Holst: | In the Bleak Mid-winter (Cranham) | Kaiser, U: | Hört, es singt und klingt mit Schalle | Karg-Elert: | Chorale-Improvisation - 'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ' | Poppen: | Es kommt ein Schiff | Praetorius, M: | Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen | Reichenau: | Salve Regina | Rheinberger: | Ex Sion | Saint-Saëns: | Oratorio de Noël (Christmas Oratorio), Op. 12: Tollite Hostias | Sandstrøm, J: | Es ist ein Ros entsprungen | Schütz: | Also hat Gott, SWV 380 Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36 |
Moritz Schott (organ) Hamburg Boys Choir, Elbeblech Brass Quintet, Ulrich Kaiser | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Canzoni Per SonareMusic By Gabrieli And His Contemporaries (Venice, 1608)
HIS MAJESTYS SAGBUTTS & CORNETTS, are pleased to announce their latest release on their signature label, SFZ Music, following the acclaimed 2008 release of music by Giovanni Battista Grillo and the release this year of Buccaneer, a tale of musical piracy. For this groundbreaking recording of canzonas for ogni sorte di stromenti ('all sorts of instruments') by diversi eccellentissimi musici ('various most excellent composers'), collected by the Venetian publisher Alessandro Raverii in 1608, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts have collaborated with the Purcell Quartet and the lute consort Chordophony to explore the kaleidoscopic possibilities of early 17th-century instrumentation. Some of the highlights of the CD include the rarely heard sonority of a consort of eight sagbutts; the premiere recording of a matched consort of lutes; wonderful cori spezzati dialogue effects between the wind and string groups; and the joy and spontaneity of improvised ornamentation. Including a number of canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli, this CD represents an important milestone on His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts' epic project to record the complete oeuvre of the master.This recording also offers a wonderful opportunity to hear the music of Gabrieli's contemporaries in the field of instrumental composition:Antegnati, Chilese, Frescobaldi, Grillo, Guami, Lappi, Luzzaschi, Maschera, Massaino and Merulo. "This consort is the pre-eminent group of its kind" Classic FM "These players demonstrate perfectly how a balance of scholarship and expert period performance can restore familiar music to such radiant good health that we wondered how it ever survived before." BBC “Only in rare cases does the published score indicate the instruments to be used, and this has given these experienced performers an opportunity to construct a varied sonic landscape. Guami's eight-voiced canzona (track 2), for example, is treated to a glittering combination of stringed and wind instruments, all perfectly balanced.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2010 **** “From the duelling cornetts in Gabrieli's Canzon Seconda, to the prim lute choir dialogue of Lappi's Canzon La Negrona and Grillo's scintillating Capriccio à 4 for strings and harpsichord, this is an attractive, highly varied programme.” The Independent on Sunday, 7th February 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Ensemble de Cuivres, Pascal Vigneron | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | The Madrigals in VenicePolitics, Dialogues & Pastorales
Gabrieli, A: | Del gran Tuonante la sorella e moglie Sassi, palae, sabbion, del Adrian lio Felici d'Adria e dilettose rive I'vo piangendo i miei passati tempi Asia felice hor ben posso chiamarmi O beltà rara, o santi modi adorni Laura soave, vita di mia vita O passi sparsi, o pensier vaghi e pronti Amami, vita mia, ch'io t'amo anchora Lasso, Amor mi trasporta ov'io non voglio Amami, vita mia, ch'io t'amo anchora Caro dolce ben mio, perche fuggire Hor ch'a noi torna la stagion novella Sento, sent'un rumor ch'al ciel si estolle Voi non volete, dona Io mi sento morire Mirami, vita mia, miram'un poco Mentr'io vi miro, vorrei pur sapere Chi'nde darà la bose al solfizar Ancor che col partire Fuor fuori a sì bel canto Dunque il comun poter | Gabrieli, G: | Canzon I 'La Spiritata' Sacri di Giove augei sacre Fenici |
“Andrea Gabrieli has always been something of a textbook composer, whose reputation falls under the shadow of his more famous nephew, Giovanni, the composer par excellence of the grand Venetian polychoral manner. Though Andrea's music may not plumb the depths of Giovanni's best pieces, his compositional range displays a versatility that the writing of his more considered relation surely lacks. Whereas Giovanni concentrated on liturgical composition, Andrea explored the gamut of contemporary styles and forms, from madrigals and lighter secular writing to dialect texts, church music, instrumental works, experimental theatre-pieces and music for Venetian festivities.
This imaginatively constructed disc, punctuated by instrumental items, presents as a main course a selection of Andrea's settings of Italian texts. These reveal an unexpected emotional complexity, robust and lively works being contrasted with more reflective ones. The former are characterised by an energetic rhythmic drive and bright sonorities in the upper registers, the latter by a mellifluous and sensitive approach.
There are also a few oddities, notably 'Asia felice', composed for an outdoor celebration of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 – suitably enlivened here with unscripted interventions of organ, sackbuts and cornets – and the boisterous rendition of the dialect text 'Chi'nde darà la bose al solfizar', which evocatively breathes the air of the streets and squares of Renaissance Venice.
Anyone smitten with the musical traditions of this most fascinating of all cities, shouldn't hesitate to buy this record.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Giovanni Gabrieli - Music for Brass, Vol. 2
London Symphony Brass, Eric Crees | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | American Brass Quintet Plays Baroque, Elizabethan, & Renaissance Music
“Brilliantly played, superlatively recorded. You can’t get a truer or more coruscating brass sound.” Stereo Review | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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