The music of Gabrieli is probably the first music ever written specifically for brass instruments. The world famous Canadian Brass get back to their "roots" with this wonderful and absorbing album of brass playing at its best with their CD Echo - Glory of Gabrieli. Hailed as "the world's leading brass ensemble", the ensemble brings its trademark virtuosity and artistic passion to the antiphonal music of Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi and Samuel Scheidt, composers of the late Renaissance and early Baroque