Voces Suaves, Francesco Saverio Pedrini, Concerto Scirocco & Giulia Genini – Croce: Motetti & Sacrae Cantiones (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Voces Suaves, Francesco Saverio Pedrini, Concerto Scirocco & Giulia Genini – Croce: Motetti & Sacrae Cantiones (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:15 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Less famous—at least these days—than his colleague, “rival” and almost contemporary Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Croce also worked in Venice, but wrote less in the sacred polychoral style and more in madrigals for four or five voices (often profane, carefree and happy) than Gabrieli. That being said, here’s some of his works for eight voices—often polychoral then—released in Venice in 1596 for the motets, and in 1605 for theSacrae Cantiones, testimonies of his consummate art of melody and harmony. By comparison, the ensembles Voces Suaves—vocal— and Concerto Scirocco—instrumental—have chosen to include some works from the two Gabrielis, Andrea and his nephew Giovanni, and also from Guami and Merulo, all tight contemporaries going from the middle of the XVIth century to the start of the next one. Cornets, sackbuts, viols, dulcians and organs (the one built in 1565 in the Church of Mantua, in which the album is recorded, for that matter) answer to the voices in the very rich and yet intimate acoustics of the place.

Tracklist

Giovanni Croce (1557 – 1609)
01. Omnes gentes
02. Canzon Decimaquarta
03. Anima mea liquefacta est
04. Percussit Saul mille
05. Toccata
06. Egredimini et videte
07. Canzon III a 4, Ch. 188
08. Ornaverunt faciem templi
09. Canzon ariosa
10. Ave virgo
11. Canzon Terza
12. Virgo decus nemorum
13. Canzon Settimadecima
14. Hodie completi sunt
15. Toccata Terza
16. Quaeramus cum pastoribus

Personnel
Voces Suaves
Concerto Scirocco
Giula Genini, direction

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