1629 was a remarkable year for new music in Venice. Heinrich Schutz, came to the city to learn of the latest music from Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries, publishing the seminal first volume of his 'Symphoniae Sacrae' during his visit. With the publication of further landmark collections from Dario Castello, Alessandro Grandi and Biagio Marini, this particular year provided a key moment in the development of the Italian Baroque style. Acclaimed period ensemble The Gonzaga Band makes it's Resonus debut with a fascinating programme of works from this period that chart the journey through this incredible year for music. The Gonzaga Band was formed by cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997, with a mission to explore the intimate relationship between vocal and instrumental performance practice in the early Modern period. The ensemble takes it's name from the ducal family of Mantua: the Gonzagas were powerful and influential patrons of the arts in the late Renaissance, who employed Claudio Monteverdi as their maestro della musica at the turn of the seventeenth century. Monteverdi wrote some of his most innovative music for the Gonzagas: his third, fouth and fifth books of madrigals, the operas Orfeo and Arianna, and the Vespers of 1610.

Tracklist:

Sonata Terza
Exulta, Filia Sion, Sv 303
Canzon Prima, Per Quattro Violini, Ò Cornetti
Paratum Cor Meum, Swv 257
Sonata Per L’organo, Violino, Ò Cornetto
Regina Caeli
Corrente Detta La Granda
Plaudite, Cantate
Capriccio, Che Due Violini, Sonano Quattro Par
Congratulamini Mihi
Maria Virgo
Salva Me, Salutaris Hostia
Lilia Convallium
Corrente Detta La Priula
Sonata Senza Cadenza
Exultavit Cor Meum, Swv 258
Sonata Decima Settima, In Ecco

UPC: 5060262791233
Label: Resonus Classics
Release Date: 7.6.18
Format: CD

Schutz - Venice 1629 (CD)