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The highly regarded Ensemble di Musica Antica del Conservatorio di Vicenza and its musical director Piervito Malusa explore the sacred music of the 16th century Italian composer Ludovico Balbi. The disc features Balbi's Ecclesiasticae Cantiones, his first important collection of sacred polyphony. The organist is Stefano Lorenzetti.\r
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Ludovico Balbi was born in Venice in 1545. In 1565 he had the chance to study in Padua with one of the leading composers of the Venetian school Costanzo Porta, and it was Porta who helped him to find employment in the city. In his career Balbi published at least eleven collections of sacred works including the work recorded here, the Ecclesiasticae Cantiones. It was published in 1578 by the famous Venetian editor Angelo Gardano. The Ecclesiasticae Cantiones are twenty-one motets for four-voices based on the Mass proprium texts. On this recording it has been decided to fit each of the seven groups of three motets (one set for each holyday) around instrumental works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Merulo, Luigi Balbi, and Bastian Chilese.\r
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Personnel: Ensemble di Musica Antica del Conservatorio di Vicenza, Stefano Lorenzetti (organ), Piervito Malus\xe0 (conductor)

Dominica prima Adventus: Intonazione del I tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Universi qui te expectant

Ad te levavi animam meam

Dominus dabit benignitatem

Sonata XXI con tre violini (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Dominica secunda Adventus: Intonazione dell'XI tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Ex Sion species decoris eius

Deus tu convertens vivificabis nos

Ierusalem surge

Canzon Trigesimasesta (Claudio Merulo)

Dominica tertia Adventus: Intonazione del IX tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Qui sedes Domine super Cherubin

Benedixisti Domine terram tuam

Dicite pusillanimes

Canzone a 4 (Luigi Balbi)

Dominica quarta Adventus: Intonazione del II tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Prope est Dominus

Ave Maria gratia plena

Ecce virgo concipiet

Canzon prima, La Spiritata (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Dominica in Septuagesima: Intonazione del XII tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

De profundis clamavi

Bonum est confiteri Domino

Illumina faciem tuam

Canzon Vigesimaseconda, a 5 (Bastian Chilese)

Dominica in Sexagesima: Intonazione dell'VIII tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Commovisti Domine terram

Perfice gressus meos

Introibo ad altare Dei

Canzon XII (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Dominica in Quinquagesima: Intonazione del II tono (Giovanni Gabrieli)

Iubilate Deo omnis terra

Intonazione del X tono (Giovanni Gabrieli

Benedictus es Domine

Manducaverunt et saturati sunt