G. Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies
Ex Cathedra, with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, Jeffrey Skidmore
the performers marvelously project the power, glory and praise of this music.
G. Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies
Ex Cathedra, with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, Jeffrey Skidmore
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the performers marvelously project the power, glory and praise of this music.
About
A welcome return to Hyperion for Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore, whose exuberant recordings of Baroque music from around the world have made them one of the best-loved ensembles of today.
This latest release presents the music of Giovanni Gabrieli in his four-hundredth anniversary year. These magnificent liturgical settings from the heart of the Venetian polychoral tradition are full of drama, wonder and extraordinary spatial effects. His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts and Concerto Palatino provide the sonic gilding that would have been an essential part of the original performances, when extra musicians crowded the galleries of St Mark’s for special occasions.
Contents and tracklist
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- Ex Cathedra ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; Concerto Palatino
- Jeffrey Skidmore
Awards and reviews
February 2013
the performers marvelously project the power, glory and praise of this music.
February 2013
Ex Cathedra join with one 'supergroup' of a Renaissance wind band, formed by His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts and Concerto Palatino. When all combine with organ continuo, the latters' tuning gives a special charge to some of those trademark chords...when Ex Cathedra sing as a choir, as in the extended Litany, even Gabrieli's most staid oratory communicates with fervour.
January 2013
This is a splendid set of performances. The singing is consistently animated and expert while the instrumental contributions are equally fine. Skidmore and his splendid, committed performers, helped by the engineers, realise the spaciousness of Gabrieli’s music to really good effect. They’re equally successful whether the music is subdued and prayerful or uninhibitedly extrovert.
15th November 2012
Ex Cathedra under Jeffrey Skidmore, matched by the pungent colours of the period instruments, enunciates the words with crisp clarity, singing with fluency and relishing the sumptuous soundscapes that Gabrieli envisaged. Emotional sensitivity and reverence are harnessed as well
