Venetian Coronation Mass

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Durham Cathedral Durham, North-East, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Mass for the coronation of Marino Grimani

Performers

Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh	Conductor

‘A Venetian Coronation 1595’ is a
musical re-creation of the
Coronation Mass for the Venetian
Doge Marino Grimani, evoking the
grand pageantry of what would have
been a truly magnificent event. A
performance that is at once
theatrical and ceremonial.

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A Venetian coronation mass with Gabrieli Consort & Players in Durham Cathedral

Jane Shuttleworth, 26th November

It’s a long way from modern Durham to renaissance Venice, from a cold winter evening in a small northern English city to a spring morning in one of the richest and most powerful cities the world has ever seen – but Paul McCreesh’s imaginative reconstruction of a Venetian Doge’s coronation mass made the leap almost instantaneous.

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