Adrien Mabire, La Guilde des Mercenaires - Giovanni Gabrieli: Gloria a Venezia! (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 53:47 | Scans included
Classical | Château de Versailles Spectacles | CVS041 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 53:47 | Scans included
Classical | Château de Versailles Spectacles | CVS041 | Recorded: 2019
Around 1600, when opera was invented in Italy, venice was resplendent with the works of Giovanni Gabrieli in the Basilica of San Marco. A daring amalgamation of Flemish and Italian styles, this is a corpus of virtuoso pieces in which voices compete with cornetts and trombones for polyphony of rare beauty. In an Italy ravaged by wars, where the Condottieri were the modern Heroes, the souls of these captains rise again thanks to the music of the brilliant Gabrieli, the ultimate representative of a Renaissance that put the fighting Princes into the last cherished armours… Adrien Mabire and his Mercenaries have been recruited to serve under Maestro Gabrieli, to enable his works to resound loud and clear, where we hear the triumphant flapping banners of the Victory at Lepanto, Glory be to the Serenissima!