There were quite a few gems here, many of them too rarely performed. The music of Giovanni Gabrieli, sometimes called "the father of orchestration," proved a special treat, with its lightning quick trade-offs of musical impulses between choirs and instruments, no transitions allowed, the music jumping across space. In the "Sonata pian' e forte," for brass, he added explicit loud and soft dynamics (one of the first pieces to do so), creating distant echoes and explosive responses.