The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
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Composer: Girolamo FrescobaldiComposer: Giovanni Gabrieli
Conductor: Richard Burgin
Performer: Boston Brass Ensemble
Performer: Chicago Brass Ensemble
Performer: Cleveland Brass Ensemble
Performer: Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Performer: E. Power Biggs
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1996-10-01
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Canzon a 12
- [Unspecified] Toccata in D minor
- [Unspecified] Canzon prima in G major
- [Unspecified] Canzon seconda in C major
- [Unspecified] Canzon terza in A minor
- [Unspecified] Canzon quarta in G minor
- [Unspecified] Canzon quinta in G minor
- [Unspecified] Toccata in G major
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Free Music Review: Purists look elsewhere... All else, buy now!
Hit: 5 Stars
Imagine a pastry chef of a future age who sees a perfect color picture of an historical artifact known as a "hamburger." Using this image, he perfectly recreates it using the tool of his trade, the primary ingredients being meringue for the bun and mousse for the burger. The result is absolutely delicious - in fact, a superlative dessert.
Sometime later, a legitimate hamburger recipe is discovered. The pastry chef is roundly derided for his "recreation," an historically inaccurate artifact. He is disgraced.
But happy. As are the many millions who continue to enjoy his concoction.
For genuine hamburger, look elsewhere - this is not Gabrieli as heard in St. Marks' during the Renaissance. But for one of the most spectacular musical "desserts" you will ever enjoy, click the "buy" button immediately. Brass players have rightly sung their Hosannas to this recording since its release in the late 1960's, but you don't have to be a brass player to be almost literally "blown away" by some of the most exciting playing of any sort ever released on a commercial recording.
The documentation is even better in this CD re-release than it was for the original LP, including not only the original liner notes confessing the logistical near-impossibility of getting the three finest orchestral brass sections in the world together in one room for a full weekend of recording, but additional commentary from a performing participant and great contemporary brass players who - in a very real sense - owe their own spectacular careers to the inspiration they received from this release.
But most of all there is the music. The players - the brass sections of the Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cleveland Orchestras - had never before worked together, and rehearsed and recorded the entire LP in nine hours over the course of one weekend. The immediate cameraderie and spontaneity are clearly evident, eclipsed only by the fact that these were some of the finest virtuoso musicians in history, regardless of instrument. My personal advice is to wait until you will bother nobody, turn the knob to "11" (with a nod to "Spinal Tap"), and let your bones vibrate and your spine tingle.
And don't forget to lick your fingers!
A delectable bonus is the organ and brass music from a second release featuring E. Power Biggs and members of the Boston Symphony from the same era. This would be an excellent release in its own right, with particularly fine playing from solo trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, but - to be fair - it was unwise to pair it with one of the most storied brass recordings in history.
The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli Poster
Venice was a good place to be in the 17th century if you liked to hang out in church--not that you had much choice in those days. Gabrieli's reputation rests on his "polychoral" compositions: works for several choirs, a choir being any size group of voices or instruments. For example, a sacred composition for three choirs might have two brass groups and one chorus, or two choruses and one brass ensemble. The idea was to keep things flexible to allow for changing local conditions. The result, in any case, was a magnificent "question and answer" style of writing, in which great blocks of harmony challenged each other from opposite sides of San Marco Cathedral. If this sort of thing intrigues you, then you owe it to yourself to hear this terrific collection. It's a cosmic experience. --David HurwitzClassical Music CDs
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