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Domine ad adiuvandum me from Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610) - Monteverdi Chor of Hamburg
Ricercar a 3 - Vienna Recorder Ens
Two Italian Madrigals: Al dolce suon - Alsfelder Vocal Ens/ Wolfgang Helbich
Two Italian Madrigals: Ove d'altra montagna - Alsfelder Vocal Ens/ Wolfgang Helbich
Nunc Dimittis - Capella antiqua Munchen/Konrad Ruhland
Il Piacere, Con in C for Violin, Strings and Continuo, Op.8 No.6: Allegro - Alice Harnoncourt
Il Piacere, Con in C for Violin, Strings and Continuo, Op.8 No.6: Largo - Alice Harnoncourt
Il Piacere, Con in C for Violin, Strings and Continuo, Op.8 No.6: Allegro - Alice Harnoncourt
O bene mio - Monteverde Choir of Hamburg w. instrumentalists/Jurgens Jurgens
O Domine Jesu Christe - Capella antiqua Munchen/Konrad Ruhland
Canzon VI a 7 - Capella antiqua Munchen/Konrad Ruhland
Madrigal a 4, Pero piu ferm - Vienna Recorder Ens
Two Motels: Das ist je gewiÃ?lich wahr SWV 388 - Der Muchener Motettenchor/Hans Rudolf Zobeley
Two Motels: Selig sind die Toten SWV 391 - Der Muchener Motettenchor/Hans Rudolf Zobeley
Madrigal a 6: Fassa la nave - Vienna Recorder Ens.
Concerto in F for Recorder, Strings and Continuo: Allegro con molto - Frans Bruggen/Gustav Leonhardt/Anner Bylsma
Concerto in F for Recorder, Strings and Continuo: Largo e cantabile - Frans Bruggen/Gustav Leonhardt/Anner Bylsma
Concerto in F for Recorder, Strings and Continuo: Allegro - Frans Bruggen/Gustav Leonhardt/Anner Bylsma
Ave Maris Stella from Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) - Monteverdi Choir of Hamburg
Singet dem Herrn ein neues leid Psalm 98, SWV 35 - Der Munchener Motettenchor/Hans Rudolf Zobeley
Madrigal a 4: A la dolc' ombra - Vienna Recorder Ens
Praesidium Sara - Alsfelder Vocal Ens/Wolfgang Helbich
Ricercar del Secondo Tuono - Vienna Recorder Ens

Description of Venice Music

Some of the greatest composers of the 16th and 17th centuries are included in Venice Music: Adriaan Willaert, Andrea Gabrieli, and Giovanni Gabrieli brought the antiphonal style to a remarkable pinnacle. In fact, in Giovanni Gabrieli's works, his use of multiple choirs anticipated the surround-sound effect of modern movie theaters by four hundred years! Venice maintained strong ties to Germany as well, and the "prince of music", Orlando di Lasso, was closely linked to Venetian music from his Munich base. Germany's first native composer of international stature, Heinrich Schuetz, is similarly connected with the Venice tradition.

Venice Music also includes two of the pivotal composers of the 18th century, whose work kept Venice at the forefront of European music long after the echo style had died out. Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi remain two of the cornerstones of classical music; Monteverdi is represented by some of his grand and exuberant Vespers, and two of Vivaldi's delightful concertos are included.

Like its painters, Venice's musicians developed a style that was immediately identifiable; and like their artistic counterparts, the Venetian composers produced some of the most striking, dramatic, and colorful works in all of Europe. Venice Music presents classic recordings of some of the most profound and most extravagant contributions made by this single city-state, which helped shape the development of what we now accept as the great legacy of Western music.

Venice Music

Venice Music

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