Glories of Rome - Splendors of Venice

ProArteOhio (LancasterChorale)

Time & Place

Date: Sun, Oct. 27, 2024

Time: 4:00 PM

St. Mary Catholic Church | 684 S Third St, Columbus, OH 43206

About the Concert

Glories of Rome - Splendors of Venice: Music of Palestrina and Gabrieli

ProArteOhio (formerly Lancaster Chorale) has established its role as a vital force in choral music through the performance of diverse and demanding literature. Engaging the region’s leading professional vocal artists, the ensemble garners high praise for its beauty of tone, musical integrity, and remarkable blend.  

Dr. Stephen Caracciolo is a professional conductor recognized for his passionate artistry with choral ensembles and as a composer of choral music whose published works are performed regularly throughout the United States. Dr. Caracciolo also serves as the newly appointed Chorus Master of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.  

With this grand program the ensemble explores and contrasts the music of two towering figures of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, active in the more musically conservative churches of Rome, and Giovanni Gabrieli, working in the musically forward-looking Basilica San Marco in Venice! The program has been thoughtfully curated for audiences to experience both the elegant beauty of traditional a cappella polyphony as would have been heard in Rome’s Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica as well as the emerging declamatory style of composition and performance as heard in Venice’s Basilica San Marco supported by instruments.

Ohio citizens are rarely afforded the opportunity to hear vocal ensemble concerts with cornetto, sackbuts, and gut strings as performed in the high Renaissance and early Baroque. Such a program is a first for the ensemble as it performs under its new banner, ProArteOHIO!

Preparing to attend this extraordinary musical event, note how the intertwining polyphony of the ‘Kyrie’ from Palestrina’s mass might be compared to the serene reverence, perfection, and flowing drapery of Michelangelo Pieta in Rome, while Gabrieli’s extended motet In ecclesiis reflects the opulence and exuberant civic pride of Venice’s byzantine ‘jewel box’, San Marco where the this motet was first heard.

Program

Glories of Rome
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1591)     

As in the Sistine Chapel 

Exsultate Deo a5                                  
Missa Papae Marcelli a6, ‘Kyrie’ & ‘Gloria’                               
Hodie Christus natus est, Gregorian chant                                          
Magnificat Primi Toni a5      
Hodie Christus natus est a8 

INTERMISSION

Splendors of Venice
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1556 – 1612)

As in the grand piazza San Marco

‘Toccata’ (from L’Orfeo) – Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
O Che felice giorno a8

As in the Basilica San Marco.

Ricercare for Organ 
Kyrie and Gloria a12
O magnum mysterium a8                                         
In Ecclesiis a15                                                        
Canzon VI a7 instruments                                                  
Jubilate Deo a8