Date/Time
Date(s) - December 22, 2019
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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FESTIVE CANTATAS: CHRISTMAS IN GABRIELI’S VENICE
Sunday, December 22 2019 | 3:00PM (Pre-concert talk at 2:15PM)
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Giovanni Gabrieli, who died in 1612, was without a doubt the greatest composer of the Venetian High Renaissance. We celebrate the holidays this year with music by this Venetian master, his uncle Andrea, and their contemporaries. This is music that would have echoed from the mosaic-covered vaults of Saint Mark’s Basilica as well as other Venetian churches. The program consists of motets for from two to fifteen voices, as well as dazzling sonatas and canzonas for cornetti, trombones and strings – festive music worthy of the season but also of the pomp and brilliance of the Venetian State.
http://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/events/festive-cantatas-christmas-in-gabrielis-venice/