Premiere recording of Galuppi and Jommelli works

I’m very pleased to announce that the first recording of The Galant Masters Project has been released and is now available. This recording includes the premiere recordings of our new editions of:

The album is available at iTunes and several other download sites, and has also been produced on CD, available from the SoundByte Studios retail site.

 

The Galant Masters Project is intended to bring lost works of Galant-style liturgical music to light. Manuscripts for this project are selected by an advisory board of specialists in this period with a focus on works that have not been published previously. Scores are prepared as critical performing editions and incorporate editorial revisions in a clean and easily readable manner while retaining maximum fidelity to the manuscript sources. Recordings are completed by The Chicago Galant Consort, an ensemble of early music specialists created specifically for this project.

 

The Chicago Galant Consort
Thomas J. Tropp, music director/conductor

Elizabeth E. Doran, associate music director/executive director

Soprano
Melinda Alberty, Bethany Brautigam, Anna Cypher, Kelly Stewart

Alto
Sammi Block, Elizabeth Jankowski, Elda McGinty Peralta

Tenor
Ace Gangoso, Jay Kory Johnson, Joshua Pritchett

Bass
Michael Cavalieri, Ryan O’Mealey, Andrew Selcke

Oboe
Anne Bach, Deborah Stevenson

Trumpet
Chris Martin, Chris Hasselbring

Horn
Dan O’Connell, Jeremiah Frederick

Organ
David Schrader

Violin I
Martin Davids, concertmaster, Emi Tanabe, Wendy Benner

Violin II
Jeri-Lou Zike, Pasquale Laurino, Anne Duggan

Viola
Elizabeth Hagen, Susan Rozendaal

Violoncello
Craig Trompeter, Anna Steinhoff

Contrabass
Jerry Fuller