Chamber, Canzonas, Gabrieli, G (composer)

The performances are excellent, even given the variety of the program. They make for an hour and 15 minutes of immersion into the Venetian spirit. The vocalists are spot on pitch, and the instruments... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

The choral sound is candid and transparent, the lower, adult voices sensitively balanced so as not to swamp the delicate timbre of the boy choristers. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts offer... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mabire favours straight, white voices with no softening spin on them – voices, in fact, that come as close as possible to early brass. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2021 More…

The idiom of the music is attractive, and the performances are fluent, though the recording doesn’t always allow the violinists to soar free of their continuo accompaniment into the church acoustic.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Giovanni Gabrieli is arguably the earliest composer to write a significant body of instrumental music to a formula which can be said to be truly idiomatic and timelessly palatable. The Sacraesymphoniae... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…