Giovanni LEGRENZI (1626-1690)
Concerti musicali per uso di Chiesa Op. 1 - Messa & Vespro

“......The performances on these CDs do these aspects full justice, though: choruses are crisp yet communicative, soloists sensitive in their articulation, yet disciplined - and at the same time brimming with spontaneity; the instrumentalists are full of feeling yet brilliant. Above all Favero has read the architecture, the sense of what's to come in the musical development, very well. Nothing is played merely because the notes on the score suggest it should be. There's an internal rationale to every phase of each of these two interpretations. It may be that Favero took a conscious decision to respect the relatively small scale on which these beautiful works were conceived. He is at pains to respect that and make the most of the contrast between intimacy of performance and response on the one hand, and the gravity and sublime nature of the subject matter on the other. If so, he - and his forces - have succeeded admirably.."