At the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque, Giovanni Gabrieli was an excellent propagandist for his church. In St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, as a composer and organist, he did everything he could to convince the believers of the power of God, distributed musicians and choirs throughout the huge church space, and created an overwhelming sense of sound. Very complex. And now you’re sitting in the Elektra-Tonquartier in the Bergson-Kunstfabrik in Munich and you get at least an instrumental idea of how the Venetian polychoral system may have worked. There are only 24 musicians on the podium here. And only there, by no means anywhere in the room. The fact that you still have the impression of sitting in a huge nave, surrounded by music, is thanks to Vivace.