Gabrieli: Sacrae Symphoniae

Gabrieli: Sacrae Symphoniae (1597)
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts / Timothy Roberts
Hyperion 66908

Contents:

  1. No. 10 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 (3 cornets, 7 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  2. No. 1 - Canzon primi toni a 8 (2 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  3. No. 7 - Canzon primi toni a 10 (2 violins, 4 cornets, 4 sackbuts)
  4. Toccata quinti toni (organ)
  5. No. 9 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 (2 violins, 4 cornets, 4 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  6. No. 16 - Canzon quarti toni a 15 (2 cornets, viola, 12 sackbuts, 3 organs)
  7. No. 8 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 (4 cornets, 2 violins, 4 sackbuts)
  8. Toccata (organ)
  9. No. 6 - Sonata pian' e forte a 8, alla quarta bassa (cornet, viola, 6 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  10. No. 2 - Canzon septimi toni a 8 (2 violins, 2 cornets, 4 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  11. Toccata (organ)
  12. No. 3 - Canzon septimi toni a 8 (2 violins, 2 cornets, 4 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  13. No. 11 - Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10 (8 cornets, 2 sackbuts)
  14. No. 5 - Canzon duodecimi toni a 8 (2 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  15. Toccata (organ)
  16. No. 13 - Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12 (3 violins, 3 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 3 organs)
  17. No. 15 - Sonata octavi toni a 12 (2 cornets, 10 sackbuts)
  18. No. 12 - Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10, per concertar con l'organo (8 cornets, 2 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  19. Intonazione noni toni (organ)
  20. No. 4 - Canzon noni toni a 8 (2 cornets, 6 sackbuts, 2 organs)
  21. 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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