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Roland Wilson has a remarkable talent for handling the music of the 16th and 17th centuries. His impressive reconstruction of Heinrich Schutz's Dafne, the first German opera, remains well remembered. His current work will undoubtedly find it's place alongside it This is how the grand Festive Mass may have sounded, with which all of Venice in 1631 celebrated the end of a plague epidemic that had claimed a third of the population. The Doge fulfilled his vow and commissioned the construction of the Santa Maria della Salute church. The Serenissima Repubblica rejoiced, and Claudio Monteverdi provided music whose splendor was hardly to be surpassed. Among other things, he used Inchslide trumpetsInch, which allowed for extraordinary tones they can be seen in old paintings and are heard - reconstructed - in this recording. This is how a republic once expressed it's gratitude. Album Tracks 1. Sento un rumor~Alla Battaglia trombe squarciate, bombardi e tromboni 2. Laudate Dominum in Sanctis ejus 3. Mass da Capella, SV 257~Kyrie à 4 da Capella 4. Gloria à 7 voci concertata 5. Jubilet tota Civitas à voce sola in dialogo 6. Selva morale e spirituale~Credo à 8 voci concertato 7. Ab Aeterno ordinata sum voce sola in basso 8. Mass da Capella, SV 257~Sanctus da Capella 9. Mass da Capella, SV 257~Benedictus da Capella 10. Salve Regina - Audi Coelum con dentro un ecco, voce sola risposta d'ecco e due violini 11. Mass da Capella, SV 257~Agnus Dei da Capella con dentro un ecco, voce sola risposta d'ecco e due violini 12. Pianto della Madonna à voce sola 13. Laetaniae della Beata Vergine à due cori
