About this title: Giovanni Rovetta was Claudio Monteverdi's successor at St. Mark's cathedral in Venice, a fact that by itself should have accorded him more attention than he has received from performers up to this 2001 West German Radio recording by the Cantus Cölln, reissued in an attractive budget-priced release by Harmonia Mundi in its Musique d'abord series. The style of these sacred pieces is that of Monteverdi, and, equally of St. Mark's, with divided choruses, soloists, and instrumentalists resounding from various corners of the performance space. The music was apparently performed, however, not in St. ...
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