Composer: Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giuseppe Guami, Cesario Gussago, Johannes Hieronymous Kapsberger, Tiburtio Massaino, Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Alessandro Piccinini, Antonio Rotta, Lodovico da Viadana
Performer: The King’s Consort
Conductor: Robert King
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDD22072
Release: 1998
Size: 355 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Bells
02. Drums
03. anon.: Rotta ‘Trumpet fanfare’
04. Gabrieli A: Vieni, vieni Himeneo
05. Guami: Canzona XXIV a 8
06. Kapsberger: Kapsberger
07. Gabrieli A: Cantiam di Dio
08. Drums
09. Gabrieli A: La Battaglia
10. Gabrieli G: Lieto godea sedendo
11. Piccinini: Variazioni sopra La Folia
12. Gussago: La Leona
13. anon.: Variazione sopra La Ciaccona
14. Gabrieli G: Udite, chiari e generosi figli
15. Viadana: La Veneziana ‘Canzona’
16. anon.: Imperiale prima
CD 02
01. Bells
02. anon.: Imperiale seconda
03. Gabrieli G: Kyrie C71-73
04. Gabrieli A: Gloria a 16
05. Gabrieli A: Intonazione del settimo tono
06. Massaino: Canzon per otto tromboni
07. anon.: Sursum corda
08. Gabrieli G: Sanctus
09. Gabrieli A: Intonatione Primo tono
10. Monteverdi: Christe, adoramus te
11. Gabrieli G: Sonata XX
12. Bells
From the eleventh century, Venetian mariners gathered together once each year to offer prayers to San Nicolò, the patron saint of sailors, asking for his continued protection. Initially the service was a simple benediction in which the Adriatic Sea was blessed with holy water. By the late-sixteenth century the ceremony had evolved into one of the most lavish and important dates in the Venetian calendar. Ascension Day now launched a large spring festival which was headed by the symbolic wedding of Venice to the Adriatic—the Sposalizio.