Gabrieli Archive

“The Travels of FROBERGER” – Music by FROBERGER and his contemporaries – Magdalena Hasibeder, harpsichords & organ – Raumklang (2 CDs)
“The Travels of FROBERGER” – Music by FROBERGER and his contemporaries – Magdalena Hasibeder, harpsichords and organ – Raumklang (2 CDs) RK 3503, TT: 2:19:13 (6/17/16) [Dist. by Naxos] *****: A magnificent set of keyboard music of Froberger & others. Johann Jacob Froberger’s 400th birthday has inspired a large number of brilliant recorded responses that […]
![* GABRIELI: 16 works [TrackList follows]; WILLIAMS: Music for Brass – National Brass Ensemble – Oberlin Music](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GabreiliSA.jpg)
* GABRIELI: 16 works [TrackList follows]; WILLIAMS: Music for Brass – National Brass Ensemble – Oberlin Music
************ MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ************
For all with multichannel SACD playback and fascinated with the originator of antiphonal music.

BRAHMS: “Mass & Motets” = Missa canonica; motets; Fest und… – Swedish Radio Choir/Dijkstra – Channel ClassicsBRAHMS: “Choral Works” = 8 total – Soloists/ Cappella Amsterdam/ Reuss – Harmonia mundi CD
Two superb examples of Brahms’s choral expertise.

BRAHMS: “Mass & Motets” = Missa canonica; motets; Fest und… – Swedish Radio Choir/Dijkstra – Channel ClassicsBRAHMS: “Choral Works” = 8 total – Soloists/ Cappella Amsterdam/ Reuss – Harmonia mundi CD
Two superb examples of Brahms’s choral expertise.

“Music for Brass & Organ” = J.S. BACH, BUXTEHUDE, CAMPRA, G. GABRIELI, HOVHANESS, HUMPERDINCK, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, SCHUMANN, R. STRAUSS – Thompson Brass Quartet, Barbara Bruns, organ – MSR
Organ and Brass Music in a fresh and pleasant program.
![“Perla Baroca: Early Italian Masterpieces” = Works of BERTALI, CASTELLO, CIMA, FONTANA, FRESCOBALDI, GABRIELI & others [Tracklist follows] – Rachel Podger, violin, w/ keyboard & theorbo – Channel Classics](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PODGERPerlaSA.jpg)
“Perla Baroca: Early Italian Masterpieces” = Works of BERTALI, CASTELLO, CIMA, FONTANA, FRESCOBALDI, GABRIELI & others [Tracklist follows] – Rachel Podger, violin, w/ keyboard & theorbo – Channel Classics
A regal unearthing of some sensational music.

1612 Italian Vespers: Second Vespers of the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (with music of VIADANA, GABRIELI, BARBARINO, A. GABRIELI, PALESTRINA, MONTEVERDI, and SORIANO) – I Fagiolini/ Robert Hollingworth – Decca Pure Audio Blu-ray
Here we go again, wonderful recording, but still not in surround sound.

“The Italian Collection” = HANDEL, A. SCARLATTI, G. GABRIELI, CALDARA, CAVALLI, LASSUS, PALESTRINA, ANERIO, ALLEGRI, LOTTI and STEFFANI – The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers – Coro (5 CDs box)
At half the normal price, this is really hard to resist.

“Stokowski, A Renaissance and Baroque Concert” = Works of BACH, VIVALDI, LULLY, CETI, FRESCOBALDI, PALESTRINA & GABRIELI – Solosts/Leopold Stokowski & His Sym. Orch. – Pristine Audio
A collection of Leopold Stokowski’s transcriptions of ‘older’ music, this Pristine reissue presents works in the glorious Stokowski Sound that purists denigrate but music-lovers applaud.

Gabrieli Sacred Symphonies = Ex Cathedra/ His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts/ Concerto Palatino/ Jeffrey Skidmore – Hyperion
There is always room for recordings of Gabrieli that are as effective and well-recorded as this one.

1612 Italian Vespers: Second Vespers of the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (with music of VIADANA, GABRIELI, BARBARINO, A. GABRIELI, PALESTRINA, MONTEVERDI, and SORIANO) – I Fagiolini/ Robert Hollingworth – Decca
It should have been in surround sound, but what we get is very nice indeed.

A New Venetian Coronation 1595: Music by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli – Gabrieli Consort and Players/ Paul McCreesh – Winged Lion Records
An excellent remake of an old favorite but I am not sure I’d discard the old one.

“A due Organi” – Works of VIVALDI, GABRIELI, GUSSAGO, GROSSI DA VIADANA, PASQUINI, HANDEL, TERRENI, ROSSINI & RUTTER – Rodolfo Bellatti & Nicola Cittadin – Gallo Organ Duets – Works of MOZART, LANGLAIS, CARLETON, MENDELSSOHN, TOMKINS, LEIGHTON & JOHNSTONE – Charles Harrison & David Leigh – Guild
Programs performed on two organs and organ duets.