Gabrieli Consort & Players.,
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Venetian Vespers. 2 CD 1 exemplar
A Requiem for Biber. CD 1 exemplar
A New Venetian Coronation (1595) 1 exemplar
Giovanni Gabrieli--Music for San Rocco 1 exemplar
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- 12
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- 13
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- #774,335
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- 4.7
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Unlike our degenerate age, when a church-service is typically fifty-five reluctant-minutes in the God-box before Sunday sports, church was long, complex, and demanding in those glory-days of Lutheranism. Granted that it was probably often turgid and boring, at its best, still, the devotion to rich liturgy was, again at best, a transcendant community devotion to God. If this sounds exceesivel, I can only invite musical and/or religious skeptics to give a few minutes to this recording. Although the total time passes an hour and a quarter, I suspect that a "real" service in those days might have been even longer, and if I'd been in training for it so-to-put), I would have asked for more.
The virtuosity and intensity of the performers is breathtaking, quite literally, whether the solo Cantor, or the massed choir in "In dulci jubilo" such that even after years of trying, I cannot imagine how mere mortals could sustain a chord so long. The delight of this album is such that I enjoy it all seasons of the year. The recording is up to the customary excellence collectors have come to expect from Archiv Produktion.… (mer)