Utwory na płycie:

• CHAN0782
• Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109)
• Sonata per il cornetto e trombone
• Laudate pueri (Psalm 2), for voice, cornet & continuo
• Toccata 4, for lute (from Intavolatura di Liuto)
• Laetatus sum (Psalm 3), for voice, cornet & continuo
• Canzoni da sonare...libro primo, No. 3, canto solo, Canzon terza, for instruments
• Nisi Dominus (Psalm 4), for 2 voices & continuo
• Capricci ... et arie in partitura, Vol.1 No.11, Capriccio Undecimo sopra un soggetto, for keyboard
• Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm 5), for 2 voices, 2 cornets & continuo
• Sonata sopra 'Sancta Maria', for voice & ensemble
• Ave maris stella, motet
• Magnificat primi toni
• Regina caeli, for voice, 2 cornets & continuo

Orazio Tarditi (1602-1677):
Domine ad adiuvandum

Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634):
Psalm I - Dixit Dominus

Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570-1630):
Sonata per cornetto

Giacomo Finetti (fl. 1605-1631):
Psalm II - Laudate pueri

Alessandro Piccinini (1566-c. 1638):
Toccata quarta in D minor for theorbo

Francesco Petrobelli (d. 1695):
Psalm III - Laetatus sum

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643):
Canzon terza in G minor for bass instrument and organ

Orazio Tarditi:
Psalm IV - Nisi Dominus

Girolamo Frescobald:
Capriccio sopra un soggetto for solo harpsichord

Natale Monferrato (c. 1615-1685):
Psalm V - Lauda Jerusalem

Archangelo Crotti (fl. 1608):
Sonata sopra Sancta Maria

Giovanni Felice Sances (c. 1600-1679):
Hymn - Ave maris stella

Adriano Banchieri:
Canticle - Magnificat

Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678):
Regina caeli

The Devine Vespers, a service of evening prayer in the Roman-Catholic Church, has provided both occasion and inspiration for some of the most sumptuous music ever composed. But not many churches in the seventeenth century could afford the lavish instrumental and vocal resources needed to play the likes of Monteverdi’s grandiose Vespro della Beata Vergine. For many of the smaller and more provincial churches, an acceptable compromise at evening service was the playing of smallerscale sacred chamber music. This led in the seventeenth century to a tremendous outpouring of sacred music for small groups of singers and instrumentalists, as performed by The Gonzaga Band on this disc.

During Vespers, it became commonplace to alternate the obligatory psalms with a number of extra-liturgical instrumental pieces. This recording follows the same structure. The psalms, by Banchieri, Finetti, Petrobelli, and Monferrato, are complemented and framed by a variety of joyous instrumental works by Tarditi, Cima, Piccinini, Frescobaldi, Crotti, Sances, and Cazzati. The Gonzaga Band was formed by the cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997 to explore historical approaches to the performance of vocal and instrumental music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its line-up is project led: the very best vocalists and period instrumentalists are ‘hand picked’ according to the specialist requirements of each programme. On this recording, The Gonzaga Band is joined by the mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson and cornettist Gawain Glenton.