Various Artists: Vespers (1616) - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: Vespers (1616) - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Vespers (1616) Artist: Various Artists Label: Resonus Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060262791554 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 09 06 Number of Discs: 1 Following the international success of their first album on Resonus, Venice 1629, Jamie Savan with his acclaimed period group The Gonzaga Band continue their exploration of lesser known music in the Venetian orbit. Here they uncover a forgotten masterpiece by Amadio Freddi,

Title: Vespers (1616)
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Resonus Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060262791554
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-09-06
Number of Discs: 1

Following the international success of their first album on Resonus, Venice 1629, Jamie Savan with his acclaimed period group The Gonzaga Band continue their exploration of lesser-known music in the Venetian orbit. Here they uncover a forgotten masterpiece by Amadio Freddi, maestro di cappella of Treviso Cathedral during Monteverdi's tenure at St Mark's in Venice. Luminous vocal textures and sparkling instrumental writing, together with harmonic originality and melodic invention combine to reveal a fascinating composer with a unique voice, heard again for the first time in this world premiere recording. The Gonzaga Band was formed by cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997, with a mission to explore the intimate relationship between vocal and instrumental performance practice in the Early Modern period. The ensemble takes it's name from the ducal family of Mantua: the Gonzagas were powerful and influential patrons of the arts in the late Renaissance, who employed Claudio Monteverdi as their maestro della musica at the turn of the seventeenth century. Monteverdi wrote some of his most innovative music for the Gonzagas: his third, fourth and fifth books of madrigals, the operas Orfeo and Arianna, and of course the Vespers of 1610.

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