Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco
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Performer: Charles PottPerformer: Donald Greig
Performer: Henry Wickham
Performer: Richard Savage
Performer: Paul McCreesh
Composer: Bartolomeo Barbarino
Composer: Karel Berman
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
Performer: David Hurley
Orchestra: Gabrieli Consort and Players
Performer: Timothy Roberts
Performer: Robert Horn
Performer: Stephen Harrold
Performer: Julian Clarkson
Performer: Robin Blaze
Performer: Simon Grant
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-11-19
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
- Sonata No 19 a 15 for brass
- Canzon No 14 a 10
- Del Nono Tono (C247)
- Sonata Per Tre Violini
- Duodecimo Tono(C250)
- Sonata No 20 a 22 for brass
- Sonata No 18 a 14
Music reviews of Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco
Music Review: Good Second Choice
Rating: 5 Stars
This recording was made only a year before La Fenice's "Giovanni Gabrieli: In Festo Sanctissimae Trinitatis". Thus for one year it was probably the best CD of Gabrieli on the market. It's still an attractive performance, with some tracks that are luscious and a few that are lumpy. I'll try to explain why I prefer the sounds of La Fenice.
Like "In Festo S. Trinitatis", this performance is a composite of Gabrieli sonatas, toccatas, and Latin-texted motets, arranged as they might have been heard in the church of San Rocco in Venice, on the saint's feast day. This is surely the right concept for performing Gabrieli for modern listeners, combining solemn majesty with instrumental fireworks. Soloists Robert Harre-Jones, Robin Blaze, Donald Grieg, Charles Pott and others, familiar to Early Music fans, all live up to their reputations here, as do the cornettos and violins of Paul McCreesh's Gabrieli Players. But there lies the problem; this isn't particularly music for soloists. If anything, Paul McCreesh conducts these polychoral structures with too much attention to the "top lines" and high voices/instruments. The middle voices are heard as "supporting" and therefore not expressively independent. The whole "sound" is grand and resonant, but it's too symphonic. The balance is soprano-heavy, the tenor is flaccid in the more complex pieces, and the bass is stolid.
I'm making the recording sound less magnificent than it is. The CD by Jean Tubery and La Fenice is interpretatively better but this one is richly sonorous and highly enjoyable. To be second best in such a musical league is still awfully good.
Description of Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco
The polychoral and antiphonal works of Giovanni Gabrieli sound best performed in the acoustics for which they were conceived, such as the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, where this splendid collection was recorded. Whether in extroverted pieces like the Sonatas 18 and 20, or the introspective and harmonically rich Domine, Deus meus, the sounds that resonate between the notes are crucial to this composer's expression. Time and again one's ears perk up at Gabrieli's genius for blending the most unlikely sonorities imaginable, such as six low voices and six sackbuts (early relatives of the trombone) in the extraordinary Suscipe clementissime. Although Gabrieli may have been the first "spatial" composer, or perhaps the first sound designer, he never indulges in fanciful effects for their own sake. The sonics manage to convey the music's spatial requirements without sacrificing clarity. --Jed DistlerGeneral CDs
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