Rovetta: Messe pour la naissance de Louis XIV / Chenier, Galilei Consort

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ROVETTA, GIOVANNI
    • PERFORMER
      Galilei Consort, Chenier
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2016
    • UPC
      3760014199653
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA965
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccata e Ricercare del secondo tono, C. 236 (from Il Transilvano)

      Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    2. Kyrie

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    3. Gloria

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    4. Messa e salmi: Canzona

      Composer: Giovanni Antonio Rigatti

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    5. Ghirlanda sacra: O Maria quam pulchra es

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Performer: Anonymous

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    6. Messa e salmi concertati, Op. 4: Credo

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    7. Salmi Concertati, con motetti, et alcune canzoni per sonar, Op. 1: Salve regina

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    8. Sanctus

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    9. Sonata per l'elevatio

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    10. Agnus dei

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    11. Christe adoramus te, SV 294

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    12. Adoramus te Christe, SV 289

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    13. In caelis hodie jubilant sancti

      Composer: Giovanni Rovetta

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    14. Omnes gentes plaudite manibus

      Composer: Giovanni Bassano

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier


In 1638 Louis-Dieudonné, destined to become King of France under the name of Louis XIV, was born at last. Louis XIII instructed his ambassadors to celebrate the event with pomp and circumstance. In Venice, whose commercial vitality gave it a dominant role in Europe, four days of festivities were organised in honor of the French Dauphin, culminating in the performance at San Giorgio Maggiore of a solemn mass specially composed by Giovanni Rovetta, Monteverdi’s deputy maestro di cappella at San Marco, who was to succeed him in 1644 and become one of the leading musicians in Venice.

That mass, never sung again since its first performance, was reconstructed by Benjamin Chénier in 2015 for the tercentenary of the death of Louis XIV. It is a grandiose, typically Venetian work, with all the splendor appropriate to the spirit of La Serenissima Repubblica.

The Galilei Consort, founded by the violinist Benjamin Chénier, is principally dedicated to the reconstruction of musical practices and works of seventeenth-century Italy. Such practices emerged from the humanist movement, and are personified by Vincenzo Galilei, father of the famous Galileo, who advocated a return to the Greek conception of music with primary importance accorded to the meaning of the text.