A. Gabrieli: Sacræ cantiones

Andrea Gabrieli is one of the major musical figures of the late sixteenth century, he is distinguished by his broad palette of styles and musical genres within his substantial compositional output. It can rightly be asserted that Gabrieli was the first Italian composer of international stature who primarily achieved his reputation on the strength of large-scale polychoral compositions.Gabrieli’s works were very much forward-looking, already anticipating the tonal language of composers such as Hans Leo Hassler and Melchior Franck.