Lo Sposalizio - The Wedding of Venice to the Sea

Hyperion CDA67048 (2 CDs) (1998)


CD 1:The processions and journey across the lagoon
[1]Single tolling bell of San Marco 0'51
[2]Drums0'48
[3]Anonymous: Rotta (trumpet fanfare) 0'52
[4]Andrea Gabrieli (~1510-1586): Vieni, vieni Himeneo (madrigal à 8)2'25
[5]Gioseffo Guami (~1540-1611): Canzona XXIV à 83'35
[6]Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (~1580-1651): "Kapsberger"1'26
[7]Andrea Gabrieli (~1510-1586): Cantiam de Dio (madrigal à 12)6'35
[8]Drums0'52
[9]Andrea Gabrieli (~1510-1586): La Battaglia (Canzona)6'51
[10]Giovanni Gabrieli (~1553-1612): Lieta godea sedendo (Madrigal à 8)4'36
[11](after Alessandro Piccinini (1566-~1638)): Variazioni super La Folia1'09
[12]Cesario Gussago (fl. 1599-1612): La Leona (Canzon XIX à 8)2'39
[13](after 17-century Italian examples): Variazioni super La Ciaccona1'00
[14]Giovanni Gabrieli (~1553-1612): Udite, chiari et generosi figli (madrigal à 16) 8'05
[15]Lodovico Viadana (~1560-1627): La Veneziana (Canzona)2'39
[16]Anonymous: Imperiale prima (trumpet fanfare and drums)2'23
total time: 47'28
CD 2:The solemn Mass held in San Marco
[1]Tolling church bell 1'15
[2]Anonymous: Imperiale seconda (trumpet fanfare) 1'24
[3]Giovanni Gabrieli (~1553-1612): Kyrie à 127'10
[4]Andrea Gabrieli (~1510-1586): Gloria à 164'44
[5]Andrea Gabrieli (~1510-1586): Intonatione settimo tono1'04
[6]Tiburtio Massaino (~1550-1609): Canzon per otto tromboni4'15
[7]Sursum corda (plainchant) 2'05
[8]Giovanni Gabrieli (~1553-1612): Sanctus à 123'51
[9]Andrea Gabrieli (~1510-1586): Intonatione primo tono1'00
[10]Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): Christe, adoramus te (motet à 5)3'35
[11]Giovanni Gabrieli (~1553-1612): Sonata XX à 228'59
[12]The bells of Venice 2'15
total time: 41'43


The Choir of the King's Consort:
countertenors: James Bowman, Robin Blaze, Robert Harre-Jones, Charles Humphries, Bernhard Landauer, Peter Nardone, Richard Wyn-Roberts
high tenors and tenors: Charles Daniels, Rodrigo del Pozo
tenors: Andrew Carwood, Duncan Mackenzie, Angus Smith, Paul Tindall, Matthew Vine
baritones: Stephen Charlesworth, Julian Clarkson, Robert Evans, Christopher Foster, Tom Guthrie, Damian O'Keeffe, Charles Pott
basses: Simon Birchall, Robert MacDonald, Richard Savage

The King's Consort:
(2 vl., 2 vlas., 3 vc., vlne., 4 chit., guit., 3 organs, 5 drums, 5 fanfare tpt., 8 crn., 2 A-trb., 8 T-trb., 4 B-trb.)

Direction: Robert King

recording: February 22-25 1998, St. Jude-on-the-Hill, London
church bells of San Marco: Easter 1998