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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 - 1612)

Composer of the Week: Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 - 1612): Episode 5: Gabrieli Magnifico

Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 - 1612)

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Episode 5: Gabrieli Magnifico

Gabrieli Magnifico

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 - 1612), Gabrieli Magnifico

Donald Macleod completes his account of Giovanni Gabrieli and his music.

Donald Macleod completes his account of Giovanni Gabrieli, and the composer's extraordinary elevation from son of a linen weaver to becoming one of Venice's leading lights.

At the start of his career the composer was known merely as 'Ser Giovanni Gabrieli'; by the end he was addressed as 'Il Magnifico signor'. Donald Macleod completes his account of Giovanni Gabrieli, looking today at the extraordinary affection in which he was held by his numerous international pupils.

Canzon per sonare no 2
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Chicago Brass

Kyrie
The King's Consort
Robert King, director

Canzon I, La Spiritata 4 (1608) 
Ricercare sopra re mi don a 4 
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall, director


O Iesu mi dulcissime a 8 (1615) 6'21
Exultet iam angelica turba a 17 4'41
Ex Cathedra
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Concerto Palatino
Jeffrey Skidmore, conductor

Deus in nomine tuo (1613) 
Audite Coeli a 12, Kassel (1613) 
Musicalische Compagney
Holger Eichhorn, director

Quem vidistis pastores
Choir of King's College Cambridge 
His Majesty's Sagbutts
Stephen Cleobury conductor.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Radio 3's Composer of the Week series focussing on the lives and works of famous musicians

Part of Radio 3's Composer of the Week series focussing on the lives and works of famous musicians throughout history.

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