Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of uncle and nephew Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli share a name that dominated Venetian music during the late 16th and early 17th ...

Lucie Skeaping presents music by Giovanni Gabrieli, who died in August 1612. Gabrieli lived and worked in Venice, and was organist at both St Marks and San Rocco. Show more Lucie Skeaping presents a ...

The son of a Venetian linen weaver, Giovanni Gabrieli took his surname not from his father but from his uncle, the composer Andrea Gabrieli. Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of the ...

The 16th-century composer Giovanni Gabrieli was a master of writing for brass. The American Brass Quartet shows off his prowess — and theirs — in a performance of a Venetian Canzon, or Venetian song, ...

Five leading American brass players make up the American Brass Quintet. From last summer's Aspen Music Festival, the ABQ plays Three Venetian Songs, or "Canzoni," by Giovanni Gabrieli, arranged by ABQ ...

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This article discusses an innovative approach to the performance of Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata XX devised by Jamie Savan (treble, mute and tenor cornetts), Adam Woolf (tenor and bass sackbuts) and ...

BBC Proms 2012: I Fagiolini made a wonderful noise in Gabrieli's Magnificat at the Albert Hall, says Geoffrey Norris Immediacy: the cover of I Fagiolini's recent CD Credit: Photo: Decca This was, for ...

Music above, behind, from side to side, all around. That's the auditory effect of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. It's what composer Giovanni Gabrieli was trying to achieve in the music he wrote for ...

This week Donald Macleod explores the music of the Gabrieli family. For the whole of the second half of the 16th Century the name of Gabrieli dominated the musical life of Venice. Andrea and nephew ...