1612 Italian Vespers

The year 1612 marks not only the death of Giovanni Gabrieli, the undisputed master of Venetian polychoral music, but also the publication of Lodovico Grossi da Viadana's groundbreaking collection of four-part vespers. The recording by I Fagiolini, first released in 2012, is the only recording of these spectacular vespers to date; the same applies to Gabrieli's incomparable, rather militaristic seven-part Magnificat (carefully studied and reconstructed by Hugh Keyte), which is interspersed with fanfares and cannon shots.