Andrea Gabrieli. II terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci con alcuni di Giovanni Gabrieli: Venezia, Angelo Gardano 1589.
Their programme includes
Andrea Gabrieli's Quem vidistis pastores and Poulenc's Christmas motets.
A fiery performance of Croce's Laudans exsultet gaudio and an equally punchy and a beautifully balanced Benedictus Dominus Deus Sabaoth by
Andrea Gabrieli led the second half.
Thus madrigals composed by
Andrea Gabrieli were performed within earshot of popular songs; high art was displayed alongside satirical imagery; formality and revelry were seamlessly entwined.
As well as the Janequin, which was given an impeccably stylish reading in what sounded like authentic Old French, we heard a parody mass by Francisco Guerrero and shorter works by
Andrea Gabrieli, Jose Ximenez and Susato, all derived from the same source.
There are three fine motets by
Andrea Gabrieli and others by Merulo, Croce and Giacomo Finetti, this last one of the composers first promulgated by Roche.
469), which he defines as the 'hybrid' madrigal, championed by
Andrea Gabrieli and Giovanni Ferretti.
His own compositions were madrigals in the vein of his contemporaries Orlando di Lasso and
Andrea Gabrieli. In 1581, in Prague, he published an anthology of his uncle's ensaladas with some additional pieces by other composers and even a madrigal that he attributed to himself.
Among the composers are Josquin Desprez, Orlando di Lasso,
Andrea Gabrieli, Jacob Regnart, Jacobus Vaet, and Giaches de Wert.
The bulk of his manuscript works produced during this period, together with some earlier compositions, were posthumously collected and published by some of his friends - Giovanni himself performed the same service for his uncle,
Andrea Gabrieli, in the years that followed the latter's death in 1585.
One could easily imagine Gumpelzhaimer's eagerness to meet Hassler, who was a major exponent of the polychoral style in Germany, and, like Giovanni Gabrieli, studied with
Andrea Gabrieli in Venice.
Marie Louise Gollner ("Lassos Motetten nach Hymnentexten und ihre Parodiemessen von Ivo de Vento und
Andrea Gabrieli") explores Lasso's motet-style settings of hymns (free, as opposed to the usual chant-based, alternatim liturgical setting) and focuses on two, Vexilla regis prodeunt and Jesu nostra redemptio, which were taken as models by
Andrea Gabrieli and Ivo de Vento.