Gabrieli Consort & Players ; Paul McCreesh, conductor
"First Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, as it might have been celebrated in St. Mark's, Venice in 1643"--Insert.
Title on container spine: Venezianische Vesper.
Compact discs.
Program notes by Paul McCreesh in English and texts in Latin with English translations (27 p. : ill.) in container.
Recorded in Northumberland, Brinkburn Priory, Sept. 1990.
Sacristy bell -- Organ: Intonazione / after Giovanni Gabrieli -- Versicle & response: Deus in adiutorium/Domine ad adiuvandum -- Antiphon: Angelus Domini -- Psalm: Dixit Dominus / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti -- Motet: O intemerata / Alessandro Grandi -- Antiphon: Beata es Maria -- Psalm: Laudate pueri / Claudio Monteverdi -- Organ: Suonata prima / Adriano Banchieri -- Antiphon: Beatam me dicent -- Psalm: Laetatus sum / Claudio Monteverdi -- Motet: O Maria, quae rapis corda hominum / Giacomo Finetti -- Antiphon: Haec est quae nescavit -- Psalm: Nisi Dominus / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti -- Organ: Dialogo secondo / Adriano Banchieri -- Antiphon: Ante thronum -- Psalm: Lauda Jerusalem / Francesco Cavalli -- Motet: O quam tu pulchra es / Alessandro Grandi -- Organ: Praeambulum / anon. -- Chapter: Ecce virgo -- Hymn: Deus qui mundum crimine iacentem / Claudio Monteverdi -- Versicle & response: Ave Maria/Dominus tecum -- Antiphon: Spiritus Sanctus -- Magnificat / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti --
(cont.): Sonata con tre violini in eco / Biagio Marini -- Collect: Dominus vobiscum--Deus, qui de beatae Mariae -- Dismissal: Dominus vobiscum--Benedicamus Domino -- Motet: Laudate Dominum / Claudio Monteverdi -- Organ: Intonazione (excerpt) / after Giovanni Battista Fasolo -- Motet: Salve regina / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti