Solo motets & instrumental works from 17th-century Venice, for voice with ensembles; the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th & 13th works are instrumental works for various combinations of cornetts & violins with continuo; the Merula Toccata is for solo harpsichord.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Olivier Cullin in French, & Latin vocal with French translations (11 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Recorded in May 1990.

Seicento, Venise

A la gloire de la Vierge

Omnes gentes : [from op. 2, 1648] / Simone Vesi (5:50)

Canzon : La strada [1637] / Tarquinio Merula (3:43)

Salve Regina [from Book 1, 1621] / Alessandro Grandi (4:20)

Canzon prima [from op. 8, 1629] / Biagio Marini (3:07)

O gloriosa Domina : a modo di echo [pub. Milan, 1626] / Ignazio Donati (3:25)

Sonate 18 : a tre, basso, e due canti, sopra la Novella [1630] / Giuseppe Scarani (5:29)

Sonata sopra Sancta Maria [from Concerti Ecclesiastici libro primo, 1608] / Fra Arcangelo Crotti (2:37)

Pulchra es amica mea : motetto del Palestrina passegiato per Il Soprano overo Tenore [pub. Milan, 1620] / Franceso Rognoni (4:34)

Toccata [from Lübbenau-Berlin ms.] (3:53) ; La Vesconta [from op. 11, 1640] (3:23) ; Nigra sum [from Motetti bk 1, 1624] (3:43) / Tarquinio Merula

Ave Maris Stella [from op. 30, 1650] / Horatio Tarditi (3:32)

Sonata a 4 [from Terzo libro delle Divine Lodi Musicali, 1620] / Giovanni Battista Riccio (4:31)

Salve Regina [from op. 30, 1650] / Tarditi (6:32).

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