CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Sacred Music (Master Works)      

San Marco 1527-1740

Gloriae Dei Instrumental Ensemble

Gloriae Dei Brass Ensemble

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San Marco: Venetian Music from Willaert to Caluppi

This history of Venetian sacred music is in large part the history of the basilica of St. Mark's, for centuries the private chapel of the Doges, noble and ignominious, of one of the world's greatest city states. In decline as a commercial, political, and military power, Venice ceded its genius to artists and artisans without parallel in European culture. The music which is the subject of this recorded survey spans more than two centuries in which the musicians of St. Mark's created and summarized the church music of a glorious past and present, spatialized it in their unique architectural environment, and proclaimed a musical future which would transcend time and inevitable decay.

The eleventh-century basilica of San Marco, modeled after the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, is, in the words of Venice's historian, Lord Norwich, "Byzantine through and through". It is an overwhelming experience for musically and historically aware singers to perform in St. Mark's before the altar screen, the glorious Pala d'Oro, as Gloriae Dei Cantores did in their 1991 tour of Italy. There ensued an invitation from the patriarchate to return in 1994 to participate in the nine hundredth anniversary of the reconsecration of the basilica. In 1094, an extensive reconstruction was completed. Legend has it that the remains of the evangelist and patron saint were lost in rebuilding and miraculously recovered, an event recorded and visible today in the mosaics of the south transept. In recognition of the anniversary of reconsecration (1094-1994), this recording attempts to provide, for the first time, a modest chronological survey in performance of the musical treasury that is San Marco.