Giovanni Gabrieli:
Fuga sul IX Tono
In Ecclesiis a 14 (C 78)
Domine Deus Meus a 6 (C 127)
Toccata e Ricercare sul II Tono
Timor et Tremor a 6 (C 142)
Sonata N. 21 con 3 violini (C 224)
Buccinate in Neomenia Tuba a 19 (C 84)
Canzona N. 14 a 10 (C 207)
Litaniae Beatissimae Mariae Virginis a 8
Fuga e Ricercare su VII e VIII Tono
Magnificat a 33 (C 151 arr. Hugh Keyte)

Bartolomeo Barbarino:
Venite Ad Me
Ave Maria (Bartolomeo Barbarino, 1593- ca. 1617)
Audi, Dulcis Amica Mea

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli’s death, who was one of the most influential musicians of the Venetian School, we are pleased to present you with this extraordinary recording of “La Musica per San Rocco”.

"La Musica per San Rocco" can be imagined as a type of music event which must have been usual in 17th Century Venice, and which represented its relish for splendour and freedom from strict schemes very well.

Thomas Coryat wrote 1611 in his report "Coryat's Crudities": "The third feast was upon Saint Roches day being Saturday and the sixth day of August, where I heard the best musicke that ever I did in all my life both in the morning and in the afternoone, so good that I would willingly goe an hundred miles a foote at any time to hear the like...This feast consisted principally of musicke, which was both vocall and instrumentall, so good, so delectable, so rare, so admirable, so superexcellent, that I did even ravish and stupifie all those strangers that never heard the like...".

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Recorded at Basilica di Santa Barbara,; Palazzo Ducale, Mantova, Italy; March 26-28, 2012