Gabrieli: Sacrae Symphoniae
- Gabrieli: Sacrae Symphoniae (1597)
- His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts / Timothy Roberts
Hyperion 66908
Contents:
- No. 10 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 (3 cornets, 7 sackbuts, 2
organs)
- No. 1 - Canzon primi toni a 8 (2 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 2
organs)
- No. 7 - Canzon primi toni a 10 (2 violins, 4 cornets, 4
sackbuts)
- Toccata quinti toni (organ)
- No. 9 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 (2 violins, 4 cornets, 4
sackbuts, 2 organs)
- No. 16 - Canzon quarti toni a 15 (2 cornets, viola, 12 sackbuts,
3 organs)
- No. 8 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 (4 cornets, 2 violins, 4
sackbuts)
- Toccata (organ)
- No. 6 - Sonata pian' e forte a 8, alla quarta bassa (cornet,
viola, 6 sackbuts, 2 organs)
- No. 2 - Canzon septimi toni a 8 (2 violins, 2 cornets, 4 sackbuts,
2 organs)
- Toccata (organ)
- No. 3 - Canzon septimi toni a 8 (2 violins, 2 cornets, 4 sackbuts,
2 organs)
- No. 11 - Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10 (8 cornets, 2
sackbuts)
- No. 5 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 8 (2 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 2
organs)
- Toccata (organ)
- No. 13 - Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12 (3 violins, 3 cornets,
6 sackbuts, 3 organs)
- No. 15 - Sonata octavi toni a 12 (2 cornets, 10 sackbuts)
- No. 12 - Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10, per concertar con
l'organo (8 cornets, 2 sackbuts, 2 organs)
- Intonazione noni toni (organ)
- No. 4 - Canzon noni toni a 8 (2 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 2 organs)
- No. 14 - Canzon noni toni a 12 (3 cornets, 3 violins, 6 sackbuts,
3 organs)
Performers: David Staff (cornet), Jeremy West (cornet, alto
cornet), Rachel Podger (violin, viola), Julia Bishop (violin), Anna
McDonald (violin, viola), Adrian Woodward (cornet, alto cornet),
Adrian Tribe (cornet, alto cornet), Richard Thomas (cornet), Neil
Brough (cornet), Anthony Leggett (tenor cornet, bass sackbut), Paul
Bevan (tenor cornet, tenor sackbut), Susan Addison (alto sackbut,
tenor sackbut), Paul Nieman (tenor sackbut), Adam Woolf (tenor
sackbut), Tom Lees (tenor sackbut), Abigail Newman (tenor sackbut),
Peter Thorley (tenor sackbut), David Purser (tenor sackbut), Stephen
Saunders (bass sackbut), Patrick Jackman (bass sackbut), Robert
Goodhew (bass sackbut), Timothy Roberts (chamber organ, direction),
Richard Egarr (chamber organ)
Playing time: 75'
Recording date: March 1997
This program consists of the complete sixteen instrumental
canzonas & sonatas from the 1597 print, plus five short
organ works.
A similar program devoted to Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni:
- Andrea Gabrieli: Missa Pater Peccavi
- Motets and Instrumental Music
His Majestys Consort of Voices / His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
/ Timothy Roberts
Hyperion 67167
Other recordings by the present ensemble:
- A Bach Album
- His Majestys Consort of Voices / His Majestys Sagbutts and
Cornetts
Hyperion 67247
- The Floating City
- Sonatas, canzonas and dances by Dario Castello and Giovanni
Picchi
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Hyperion 67013
- His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts - Grand Tour
- Music from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, Spain and
Germany
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts / Timothy Roberts
Hyperion 66847
- For His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
- English Music from Henry VIII to Charles II
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts / Timothy Roberts
Hyperion 66894
- Festal Sacred Music of Bavaria
- Choir of Westminster Cathedral - James O'Donnell / His Majesty's
Sagbutts & Cornetts - Jeremy West
Hyperion 66688
- Capriccio Stavagante - Volume I
- Purcell Quartet / His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Chandos Chaconne 0651
- Lassus: Missa ad imitationem moduli vinum bonum
- Ex Cathedra / His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
AS&V Gaudeamus 150
And a closely related one featuring some of these performers:
- The Age of Extravagance
- Virtuoso Music from Iberia and Italy
Jeremy West et al.
Hyperion 66977
Finally, a similar program by another English ensemble:
- In Venetia
- Gabrieli / Priuli / Picchi / Merulo / Gabrieli / Merula
The QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornet Ensemble
Meridian 84367
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