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Early Music - Gabrieli: Music For Brass Vol 3 / Crees, Et Al

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Details

Composer
GABRIELI G.
Artist
Eric, Crees
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Mar 01, 2001
Catalog #
8554129
UPC
636943412923

About

Hearing Gabrieli's music live is a uniquely transporting aural experience. A recent Pittsburgh Symphony Concert conducted by Mariss Jansons featured three brass choirs placed on the stage and in the left and right balconies, creating marvelous spatial effects. It occurred to me that this would be the perfect music to demonstrate the surround sound capabilities of SACD and DVD Audio. While this new Naxos recording utilizes neither of those technologies, it's pretty impressive on its own, presenting Gabrieli's antiphonal constructions in vivid, three dimensional sound, recorded in London's All Hallows Church. Volume 3 begins with the Canzona in Echo Duodecimi Toni a 10 (1597), which uses two five-part choirs to create some marvelously imaginative echo effects (a favorite device of baroque composers).


Canzona X of 1615 is one of the more extensive works in this collection, full of spectacular flourishes and elaborate polyphonic passages. Spectacular in another way is the minor mode Canzona Quarti Toni, with its challenging writing for 15 voices in three choirs (mostly in the alto and bass registers). All 13 selections receive splendid performances by the London Symphony Orchestra Brass, a truly world-class ensemble that plays with ringing tone, beautifully blended sonority, and immaculate clarity. Eric Crees, who prepared new editions of Gabrieli's works for this series, conducts with scholarly authority, sparked by evangelical fervor. If you avoided all those "hip" brass ensemble discs in the 80s and 90s, give this a try. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
--Victor Carr Jr., ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Sacrae symphoniae: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10 (arr. E. Crees for brass) 03:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    Sacrae symphoniae: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10 (arr. E. Crees for brass)
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  2. 2 Canzon XV 04:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    Canzon XV
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  3. 3 Canzon I 02:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    Canzon I
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  4. 4 Canzon duodecimi toni II a 10 04:48
    Track
    4
    Title
    Canzon duodecimi toni II a 10
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  5. 5 Canzon quarti toni a 15 04:20
    Track
    5
    Title
    Canzon quarti toni a 15
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  6. 6 Canzon IV a 4 (arr. E. Crees for brass) 02:20
    Track
    6
    Title
    Canzon IV a 4 (arr. E. Crees for brass)
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  7. 7 Canzon septimi toni I a 8 03:58
    Track
    7
    Title
    Canzon septimi toni I a 8
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  8. 8 Canzon duodecimi toni a 8 03:31
    Track
    8
    Title
    Canzon duodecimi toni a 8
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  9. 9 Canzon X 04:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    Canzon X
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  10. 10 Canzon IV 02:35
    Track
    10
    Title
    Canzon IV
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  11. 11 Sacrae symphoniae: Canzon primi toni a 10 (arr. E. Crees for brass) 02:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    Sacrae symphoniae: Canzon primi toni a 10 (arr. E. Crees for brass)
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  12. 12 Sonata XXI, "con tre violini" 03:29
    Track
    12
    Title
    Sonata XXI, "con tre violini"
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees
  13. 13 Sonata XX 07:21
    Track
    13
    Title
    Sonata XX
    Duration
    07:21
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Brass
    Conductor
    Eric Crees