His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts - Giovanni Gabrieli: The Canzonas and Sonatas from Sacrae Symphoniae 1597 (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 74:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66908 | Recorded: 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 74:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66908 | Recorded: 1997
Giovanni Gabrieli is arguably the earliest composer to write a significant body of instrumental music to a formula which can be said to be truly idiomatic and timelessly palatable. The Sacraesymphoniae publication of 1597 is a mixed set of vocal and instrumental pieces and, in its grand design, preserves a glorious heyday of textural opulence, intimate and playful dialogue between galleries and unashamedly ostentatious virtuosity.