Sacred Garland

JAMIE SAVAN (cornetto)
FAYE NEWTON (soprano)
RICHARD SWEENEY (theorbo)
STEVEN DEVINE (harpsichord & organ)

For this collection the Gonzaga Band has chosen some of the most beautiful music from the dawn of the baroque era in Italy. Some of the composers, such as Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Merula and Grandi, are well known today. Others, such as Nicolai Corradini, Benedetto Re and Archangelo Crotti, are minor masters whose music has been unjustly forgotten.

1. Corradini: Spargite Flores
2. Monteverdi: Venite, Sitientes Ad Aquas
3. Palestrina/Rognoni: Pulchra Es Amica Mea
4. Grandi: Jesu, Mi Dulcissime
5. Rossi (Attrib.): Partite Sopra La Romanesca
6. Merula: Nigra Sum; Gaudeamus Omnes
7. Piccinini: Toccata XII
8. Donati: O Gloriosa Domina De Rore
9. Bovicelli: Angelus Ad Pastores
10. Frescobaldi: Canzona 'La Bernardinia', Canzona 'La Capriola', Toccata I
11. Picchi: Toccata
12. Re: Tulerunt Dominum
13. Kapsperger: Toccata VII
14. Crotti: Congratulamini