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Messa Concertata
Cavalli, Seicento Ens, Holman
Messa Concertata
Genres: Pop, Classical
 
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Cavalli, remembered now as an opera composer, spent his entire career on staff at San Marco in Venice and wrote a lot of sacred music. The Missa Concertata is more lightly scored than Gabrieli's music for San Marco of 50...  more »

     
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All Artists: Cavalli, Seicento Ens, Holman, Parley of Instr
Title: Messa Concertata
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Total Copies: 0
Label: Hyperion UK
Release Date: 11/11/1997
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 034571169705

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Cavalli, remembered now as an opera composer, spent his entire career on staff at San Marco in Venice and wrote a lot of sacred music. The Missa Concertata is more lightly scored than Gabrieli's music for San Marco of 50 years earlier: it uses eight voices with only two violins, three trombones, and continuo. The writing is similarly light and clear, the quick triple-time bits are occasionally repetitive, but the contemplative sections are truly lovely--especially the falling suspensions of the Crucifixus and the Agnus Dei's old-style polyphony. Peter Holman and his fine musicians perform one-singer-per-part; while they don't reconstruct a whole service with chant and readings, they do interpose some beautiful instrumental canzonas and solo motets as would have been done in 17th-century Venice. --Matthew Westphal