Giovanni Gabrieli / Giuseppe Guami

Giovanni Gabrieli / Giuseppe Guami
Canzoni da sonare à 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ed 10 voci con B.c.
Hespèrion XX
EMI "Reflexe" 1C 065 45646 [LP]
EMI "Reflexe" CDM 7 63141-2 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Giovanni Gabrielli: Canzon 1. toni à 10 (1597; tutti, harpsichord)
  2. Giuseppe Guami: Canzon La Cromatica à 4 (1601; 4 viols)
  3. G. Gabrieli: Canzon I La Spiritata à 4 (1608; 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, organ)
  4. Andrea Gabrielli: Canzon sopra Qui la dira (harpsichord)
  5. G. Gabrieli: Canzon III à 6 (1615; 6 viols, lute)
  6. Guami: Canzon XXIV à 8 (1608; 4 viols, lute, 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, harpsichord, violone)
  7. G. Gabrieli: Canzon I à 5 (1615; 2 cornets, 3 sackbuts)
  8. Guami: Canzon sopra La Battaglia à 4 (1601; 4 viols, guitar)
  9. G. Gabrieli: Canzon 12. toni à 10 (1597; tutti, harpsichord)
  10. G. Gabrieli: Canzon II à 4 (1608; 4 viols, organ)
  11. Guami: Canzon La Guamina à 4 (1601; 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, organ)
  12. G. Gabrieli: Canzon VII à 7 (1615; 2 cornets, 3 viols, 2 sackbuts, violone, harpsichord)
  13. Guami: Canzon La Accorta à 4 (1601; cornet, 3 viols, organ)
  14. G. Gabrieli: Canzon XXVII à 8 (1608; 2 cornets, 4 viols, 2 sackbuts, violone, harpsichord)
  15. G. Gabrieli: Ricerxar sopra Re fa mi don à 4 (4 viols)
  16. Guami: Canzon XXV à 8 (1608; 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, harpsichord, 4 viols, lute, violone)
  17. G. Gabrieli: Canzon 12. toni à 10 (1597; tutti, harpsichord)

Playing time: 56' 04"

Performers:
Hespèrion XX [Jordi Savall (treble viola da gamba), Christophe Coin (treble viola da gamba, alto viola da gamba), Sergi Casademunt (bass viola da gamba), Masako Hirao (tenor viola da gamba), Roberto Gini (bass viola da gamba), Pere Ross (bass viola da gamba, violone), Bruce Dickey (cornett), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornett), Jean-Pierre Mathieu (alto trombone, tenor trombone), Charles Toet (tenor trombone), Richard Lister (bass trombone), Hopkinson Smith (lute, guitar, theorbo), Ton Koopman (harpsichord, organ)] - Jordi Savall, dir.

Recording date:
October 1978;
rel.: 1979 [LP], 1989 [CD]

Compilation:
EMI "Reflexe" 7243 8 26515 2 [CDx6] REFLEXE Vol. 8 Stationen Europäischer Musik
Virgin "Veritas x2" 7243 5 62028 2 5 [CDx2] A Musical Banquet - Schein · Scheidt · Gabrieli
Virgin "Classics" 7243 4 82025 2 9 [CDx5] Jordi Savall - Music in Europe 1550-1650 - Cabezón · Gabrieli · Guami · Schein · Scheidt · Songs and Dances from the time of Cervantes

Nathan Wilkes

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555-1612) is well-known for his vibrant instrumental music, performed especially by early brass (cornets & sackbuts) and as intermezzi to cathedral services. However, his more abstract canzoni also serve nicely as chamber music, a format the publications certainly encourage. These canzoni by Gabrieli serve in some ways to summarize the Renaissance style of instrumental writing as started in Venice by Willaert. Giuseppe Guami (c.1540-1611) has a complementary style.

Other recordings devoted entirely to this aspect of Gabrieli's output:

Gabrieli: Sonate e Canzoni
Per concertar con l'organo
Concerto Palatino - Bruce Dickey & Charles Toet
Harmonia Mundi 901688
Gabrieli: Sacrae Symphoniae (1597)
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts / Timothy Roberts
Hyperion 66908
Gabrieli: Canzoni et Sonate da sonar (1615)
Consort Fontegara - René Clemencic
Tactus 550701

Some other recordings featuring Italian music for winds in the early 17th century:

Effetti e Stravaganze
Affect and Effect in 17th-Century Instrumental Music
Concerto Palatino
Accent 94102
L'Heritage de Monteverdi IV
Castello - In Stil Moderno
Kiehr / La Fenice - Jean Tubéry
Ricercar 206422
Gabrieli in Venice
Gabrieli, Viadana, Marini, Massaino, Frescobaldi
London Brass - Philip Pickett
Teldec 90856
Sonatas / Canzonas
Baroque Chamber Music - Purcell / Turini / Merula
Quadro Hotteterre
Philips 442 782
Venetian Instrumental Music of the Renaissance
Concertus Musicus Patavinus - Giovanni Toffano
Bongiovanni 5018

The corresponding Neapolitan / Roman output of Frescobaldi:

Frescobaldi: Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni
Il Viaggio Musicale
Bongiovanni 5533

The other citations above are centered on Venice. Another collection devoted to a more obscure composer:

Corradini: Partitura del Primo Libro de' canzoni francese
Aulòs Consort
Tactus 580301

Finally, a program of some earlier instrumental transcriptions which formed much of the motivation for the early Baroque style of the present citation:

Io canterei d'amor
Chansons e Madrigali da sonare
Labyrinto Concerto di viole - Paolo Pandolfo
Harmonia Mundi (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Documenta) 905234

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Todd M. McComb