For this collection The Gonzaga Band has chosen some of the most beautiful music from the dawn of the baroque era in Italy. Some of the composers, such as Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Merula and Grandi, are well known today. Others, such as Nicol Corradini, Benedetto Re and Archangelo Crotti, are minor masters whose music has been unjustly forgotten.

All the composers represented on this disc share a gift for writing accessible, tuneful music for solo voice with obbligato instruments. The challenge is for the instrumentalist to play as vocally as possible, whilst the singer needs an instrumentalists technique to negotiate the virtuosic demands of this repertoire. The Gonzaga Band successfully meets this challenge in Sacred Garland.

Jamie Savan commented on the recording, Catherine Bott once described our blend of cornett and voice as that of two soprano instruments matched in dazzling duet. We hope our recording will live up to this high praise.'
Pulchra es amica mea
Palestrina/Rognoni
Partite sopra la Romanesca
Rossi (attrib.)
Angelus ad pastores
de Rore/Bovicelli
Re: Tulerunt Dominum
Corradini:Spargite flores
Crotti:Congratulamini
Donati:O gloriosa Domina
Frescobaldi:Canzona: La Bernardina
La Capriola
Toccata No. 1
Grandi:Jesu, mi dulcissime
Kapsberger:Toccata VII
Merula:Nigra sum
Gaudeamus omnes
Monteverdi:Venite, sitientes ad aquas
Picchi:Toccata
Piccinini:Toccata XII