Andrea Gabrieli: Vieni, vieni Himeneo Cantiam di Dio La Battaglia Gloria a 16 Intonatione Settimo tono Intonatione Primo tono
Anonymous - liturgical: Sursum corda
Anonymous - traditional: Rotta Variazione sopra La Ciaccona Imperiale prima Imperiale seconda
Cesario Gussago: La Leona
Claudio Monteverdi: Christe, adoramus te
Gioseffo Guami: Canzona XXIV a 8
Giovanni Gabrieli: Lieto godea sedendo Udite, chiari e generosi figli Kyrie a 12 Sanctus a 12 Sonata XX a 22
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Kapsberger
Lodovico Viadana: La Veneziana
Tiburtio Massaino: Canzon per otto tromboni
From the eleventh century, Venetian mariners gathered together once each year to offer prayers to San Nicolo, the patron saint of sailors, asking for his continued protection. Initially the service was a simple benediction in which the Adriatic Sea was blessed with holy water. By the late-sixteenth century the ceremony had evolved into one of the most lavish and important dates in the Venetian calendar. Ascension Day now launched a large spring festival which was headed by the symbolic wedding of Venice to the Adriatic the Sposalizio.
Robert King and his serried ranks of instrumentalists and singers recreate this glorious event in the grandest style. Giovanni Gabrieli's twenty-two-part Sonata (his largest-scale instrumental work), Andrea Gabrieli's 'Battle' Canzona, the church bells of Venice, fanfares for trumpets and drums, the massive sixteen-part madrigal Udite, chiari the catalogue of riches goes on … dawniej CDA 67048
