"Whenever Andrea Gabrieli is thought of, it is in the context of the fact that he was the great Giovanni Gabrieli's uncle, yet, as this new disc demonstrates, he was strongly influential ... He has a style and a form of expression which is all his own ... more reserved, solid and restrained than Giovanni's and that may be why he is less often performed ... Under the redoubtable Manfred Cordes, Weser-Renaissance and the CPO label have allowed no stone to be unturned in these performances, employing sixteen musicians - that is, seven singers and nine instrumentalists playing, for example, trombones, chitarrone and something called a zink which is a small cornett ... There is some very fine singing heard here and some wonderfully warm and nimble instrumental work. There are also four organ pieces".