Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco

Charles Pott (Performer), Donald Greig (Performer), Henry Wickham (Performer), Bartolomeo Barbarino (Composer), Karel Berman (Composer), Giovanni Gabrieli (Composer), David Hurley (Performer), Gabrieli Consort & Players (Orchestra), Timothy Roberts (Performer), Robert Horn (Performer), Steven Harrold (Performer), Julian Clarkson (Performer), Robin Blaze (Performer), Simon Grant (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Charles Pott, Donald Greig, Henry Wickham, David Hurley, Timothy Roberts, et al.
• Orchestra: Gabrieli Consort & Players
• Composer: Bartolomeo Barbarino, Karel Berman, Giovanni Gabrieli
• Audio CD (November 19, 1996)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Archiv Produktion
• ASIN: B0000057FO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Gabrieli Album, and McCreesh's Best, Too, December 27, 2001

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Timothy Dougal (Madison, Wi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco (Audio CD)

"Music for San Rocco" gives us a most generous collection of Gabrieli music(78 min.), beautifully performed and gorgeously recorded. The album as a whole is well paced, alternating the grand, the meditative and the purely instumental with intelligence and sensitivity. And the singing is always enthusiastic and downright rapturous!

For me, this is also McCreesh's best album because it is not a reconstruction. I have heard several of these discs, and the reconstructions of Mass or vesper services might be interesting to listen to once, or maybe even twice if you have never been ot a genuine Catholic service of this sort. But frankly, liturgies, and liturgical chants are not entertainment, and generally are purely functional rather than entertaining. If you want just the real music on these discs, you have to program out 20-25% of the selections! More music and less turgid liturgical history for me, Paul!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, April 13, 1999

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This review is from: Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco (Audio CD)

I'm not much of an early music buff, but being acquainted with one of the soloists on the disc, I decided to spring for it. Am I glad I did! This is one absolutely stunning album. The incomparable David Hurley himself makes this disc a must for your collection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is how you perform the music of Gabrieli!, November 4, 2003

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Steven Guy (Croydon, South Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco (Audio CD)

There is little I can add to what the other reviewers have said about this tremendous recording. The performances are very good, the tempi are well chosen and the instruments are the rights ones.

There are many excellent contributions from individuals - Robin Blaze is positively heroic in Buccinate in neomenia tuba. The three violins in Sonata XXI con tre violini play this music with great sensuality. The cornettists are all first rate and so are the sackbut players.

It all sounds very good and the music is wonderful.

Let's just hope that the video of this recording is issued on DVD soon! (Let DGG know you wan them to do this!)