Performed by Early Music New York
Frederick Renz, Director
Instrumental music inspired by Venice's San Marco (basilica) in the late 16th /early 17th centuries - festive celebratory works for sackbuts, cornettos, theorbos, Italian double harp, guitar, bagpipes, shawm and a band violins - includes polychoral works by Giovanni Gabrieli and Ludovico Viadana; toccatas and ritornelli by Claudio Monteverdi and Cesare Bendinelli, dances by Giorgio Mainerio, Joan Dalza, Lorenzo Allegri and Gasparo Zanetti; sonatas by Biagio Marini, and Cessario Gussago; canzonas by Tarquinio Merula, Pietro Lappi; and others. The repertoire chosen for this album is of the opulent "Venetian School" with original editions printed in Venice.
PLAY LIST (click a selection for a 30 sec mp3 preview)
1.Sonata "di Sarassineta" Cesare Bendinelli, ca.1540-1617
2.Canzon duodecima à 10 Giovanni Gabrieli, ca.1536-1612
3.Sonata "La Schilina"Cesario Gussago, fl.1599-1612
4.Ballo della "Notte d'amore" - [Pavane], Gagliarda, CorrenteLorenzo Allegri, ca.1573-1648
5.Canzone à 2 "La Monteverde" Tarquinio Merula, ca.1594-1665
6.Sinfonia à 8 "La Venetiana" Ludovico Viadana, 1560-1627
7.Sinfonia, Zarabanda, Corrente, Passacalio Biagio Marini, 1594-1663
8.Alemana, "La Mantovana"Gasparo Zanetti, fl.1625-1645
9.Caro Ortolano, Ungarescha, Ballo Francese,
Schiarazula Marazula, La Lavandara, GagliardaGiorgio Mainerio, ca.1535-1582
10.Canzon a duoi liuttiGiovanni Antonio Terzi, arr, fl.1593-1599.
11.Toccata, 5 Ritornelli, & Moresca from opera OrfeoClaudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643
12.Gagliarda "Venetiana"Antonio Gardano, pub.
13.Balletto alemano "Il Monteverde" Biagio Marini, 1594-1663
14.Sonata Dario Castello, ca.1590-1630
15.Pavana/Saltarello/Piva "Veneziana" Joan Ambrosio Dalza, fl.1500-1510
16.Canzon à 13 "La Monteverde" Pietro Lappi. Ca.1575-1630