Splendor of Baroque Brass

London Gabrieli Brass (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000001HMH
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,258 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Work(s): Suite

2. An Elizabethan Suite

3. Trumpet Tune

4. Music for His Majesty's sackbutts and cornetts, suites (2) for 2 cornetts & 3 sackbuts

5. Work(s): Trumpet Tune and Ayre

6. Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, march and canzona for orchestra, Z. 860

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rossette winning recording, March 8, 2008

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Larry Kohl (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Splendor of Baroque Brass (Audio CD)

For several years running, this CD won the coveted Rossette rating in the Penguin Record Guide. For Purcell's Music for Funeral of Queen Mary, a choral group joins the London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble. Here is the program:

Tielman Susato (1500-1564): Suite from la Danserye (7:25)

Giovani Gabrieli: Canzone per Sonare a Quatro 2:35)

Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654): Suite (7:30)

Bach: Contrapunctas IX (from Art of Fugue) (3:40)

Johan Pezel (1639-1694): Ceremonial Brass Music (9:05)

Charpentier: Prelude in D (from Te Deum) (2:00)

Jeremiah Clarke (1669-1707): Prince of Denmark's March (2:15)

Anthony Holborne (d. 1602) 5 Dances (6:20)

John Stanley (1713-1786): Trumpet Tune (2:55)

Matthew Locke (1630-1677): Music for his Majesty's Sagbutts etc (9:40)

Henry Purcell: Trumpet Tune & Ayre (2:55)

Henry Purcell: Music for Funeral of Queen Mary (11:00)