Gabrieli: 1615 Gabrieli In Venice

   in Early Music Today (Mar, 2016)
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Stephen Cleobury (d) King’s College Cambridge KGS0012 Dolby’s Atmos technology allows height information to be added to surround- sound recording, capturing the acoustics of the recording venue with startling fidelity. Gabrieli’s antiphonal and cori spezzati music written for Venice’s Basilica di San Marco, and the cavernous yet warm and vibrant acoustics of King’s, Cambridge could not, of course, be a more apposite combination of choices for the technology’s audio-disc launch. I have been consistently astounded by the vivid acoustic capturing of King’s Chapel on the discs across a variety of audio set-ups.

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