专辑简介

Instrumental music inspired by Venice’s San Marco (basilica) in the late 16th /early 17th centuries – festive celebratory works for sackbuts, cornettos, theorbos, Italian double harp, guitar, bagpipes, shawm and a band violins – includes polychoral works by Giovanni Gabrieli and Ludovico Viadana; toccatas and ritornelli by Claudio Monteverdi and Cesare Bendinelli, dances by Giorgio Mainerio, Joan Dalza, Lorenzo Allegri and Gasparo Zanetti; sonatas by Biagio Marini, and Cessario Gussago; canzonas by Tarquinio Merula, Pietro Lappi; and others. The repertoire chosen for this album is of the opulent “Venetian School” with original editions printed in Venice.