Singing into Space

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
November 14, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giovanni Bonato, Giovanni Gabrieli
    • PERFORMER
      Estonian National Male Choir, Mikk Uleoja
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 14, 2025
    • UPC
      5060640070448
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCN0044
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral
    Works ⌄

    1. Tenebrae factae sunt

      Composer: Giovanni Bonato

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    2. Exaudi Deus orationem meam a 7, C. 12

      Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    3. Crux fidelis

      Composer: Giovanni Bonato

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    4. Sacrae symphoniae, Book 1: No. 56. Regina coeli laetare (arr. A. Kruusimäe for male choir)

      Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    5. O lilium convallium

      Composer: Giovanni Bonato

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Performer: Levi-Danel Mägila, Aare Tammesalu

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    6. Sacrae symphoniae, Book 1: Maria virgo a 10

      Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    7. Stetit angelus

      Composer: Giovanni Bonato

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    8. Symphoniae Sacrae (1615): Buccinate in neomenia tuba a 19 (arr. A. Kruusimäe for male choir)

      Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    9. Signum magnum

      Composer: Giovanni Bonato

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Performer: Aare Tammesalu

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja

    10. Genuit puerpera

      Composer: Giovanni Bonato

      Ensemble: Estonian National Male Choir

      Performer: Margus Vellmann, Mart Kroon

      Conductor: Mikk Üleoja


The two composers heard on this album, Giovanni Gabrieli (1553-1612) and Giovanni Bonato (born in 1961) have more in common than their first names: both hail from the Veneto in north-east Italy - there is no documentation of Gabrieli's birth, but he was probably Venetian, and Bonato was born in nearby Schio. Their music, too, is conceived in terms of it's sound in space, with Gabrieli using the cori spezzati that sang from the opposing galleries of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, and Bonato employing cori spazzializati to build a spatial dimension into the music itself. Juxtaposed, their styles offer a striking contrast, with Gabrieli's bold declamations set against Bonato's shifting, timeless suspensions.