A Venetian Christmas (Prima Missa in Natavitate Domini)

DGG Archiv 471 333-2 (2001)

	Giovanni Gabrieli (~1554/56-1612):
[1]	Intonazione dell'undecimo tono, C249	0'30
[2]	Audite principes à 16, C 123	5'23
	(Chant):
[3]	Introitus	2'10
	Cypriano de Rore (1516-1565):
[4]	Kyrie (Missa "Praeter rerum seriem" à 7)	4'11
[5]	Gloria (Missa "Praeter rerum seriem" à 7)	6'55
	(Chant):
[6]	Oratio	0'57
[7]	Prophetia	1'36
[8]	Epistola	1'34
	Graduale
	Giovanni Gabrieli:
[9]	Canzon noni toni à 12, C 183	3'26
	(Chant):
[10]	Evangelium	3'48
	Cypriano de Rore:
[11]	Credo (Missa "Praeter rerum seriem" à 7)	10'10
	Offertorium
	Giovanni Gabrieli:
[12]	Intonazione del stettimo tono, C245	0'30
[13]	Salvator noster à 15, C 80	4'11
	(Chant):
[14]	Praefatio	2'09
	Cypriano de Rore:
[15]	Sanctus (Missa "Praeter rerum seriem" à 7)	6'20
	Elevatio
[16]	Toccata (improvised after Girolamo Frescobaldi)	2'21
	Giovanni Gabrieli:
[17]	O Jesu mi dulcissime à 8, C 56	6'14
	(Chant):
[18]	Pater noster	1'52
	Cypriano de Rore:
[19]	Agnus Dei (Missa "Praeter rerum seriem" à 7)	2'39
	Communio
	Giovanni Gabrieli:
[20]	Canzon duodecimi toni (no.3) à 10, C 179	2'36
	(Chant):
[21]	Postcommunio - Benedictio	2'37
	Giovanni Gabrieli:
[22]	Quem vidistis pastores, after C 77	8'48
	total time:	80'57

Gabrieli Consort:

falsettists: Robert Harre Jones, Charles Humphries, Malcolm Smith, Robin Tyson
tenors: Julian Podger, Steven Harrold, Angus Smith (Sub Deacon), Rodrido del Pozo
baritones: Charles Pott, Robert Evans, Don Greig (Profecy), Alistair Hamilton
basses: Michael McCarthy (Deacon), Simon Grant (Celebrant), Richard Savard (Legate), Francis Steele

Gabrieli Players (violin/viola, viola, 5 cornets, 3 tenor cornets, 5 trombones, dulcian, 3 organs)

Direction: Paul McCreesh

recording: July 1998, Brinkburn Priory, Weldon/Northumberland (UK)