Monteverdi: Vespers

Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Coro del Centro Musica Antica di Padova - Jordi Savall
Astrée (Auvidis) E 8719 [CDx2]
Astrée (Naïve) "Musica Italiana" ES 9936 [CDx2]
Alia Vox AVSA 9855 [SACD-Hx2]

Content:

    Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)

    CD-1

  1. Intonatio: Deus in adiutorium
    Responsorium: Domine ad adiuvandum
  2. Antiphona: Angelicam vitam
    Psalmus 109: Dixit Dominus
  3. Concerto: Nigra sum
  4. Antiphona: In Dei orto sata
    Psalmus 112: Laudate pueri
  5. Concerto: Pulchra es
  6. Antiphona: Paterni oblita amoris
    Psalmus 121: Laetatus sum
  7. Concerto: Duo Seraphim
  8. Antiphona: In Sancte Trinitatis
    Psalmus 126: Nisi Dominus

    9. CD-2

  9. Concerto: Audi cœlum
  10. Antiphona: Trinitate venerata
    Psalmus 147: Lauda Jerusalem
  11. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
  12. Hymnus: Ave maris stella
      13. Versus 1: Ave maris stella
      Versus 2: Sumens illud Ave
      Versus 3: Solve vincla reis
      Versus 4: Monstra te esse matrem
      Versus 5: Virgo singularis
      Versus 6: Vitam praesta puram
      Versus 7: Sit laus Dei Patri
  13. Antiphona: Hodie beata Barbara / Magnificat
      14. Versus 1: Magnificat anima mea
      Versus 2: Et exsultavit
      Versus 3: Quia respexit
      Versus 4: Quia fecit mihi magna
      Versus 5: Et misericordia
      Versus 6: Fecit potentiam
      Versus 7: Deposuit potentes de sede
      Versus 8: Esurientes implevit bonis
      Versus 9: Suscepit Israel
      Versus 10: Sicut locotus est
      Versus 11: Gloria Patri
      Versus 12: Sicut erat in principio

Performers:
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Livio Picotti (counter-tenor), Paolo Costa (counter-tenor, tenor), Guy de Mey (tenor), Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Pietro Spagnoli (baritone), Roberto Abbondanza (baritone), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Enrico Onofri (violin), Adrian Chamorro (violin), Sergi Casademunt (viol), Eunice Moreira (viol), Paolo Pandolfo (viol), Bruce Dickey (cornett), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornett), William Dongois (cornett), Richard Cheetham (sackbut), Daniel Lasalle (sackbut), Wim Becu (sackbut), Pedro Memelsdorf (recorder), Christophe Hersan (recorder), Stephen Stubbs (chitarrone), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Rinaldo Alessandrini (organ), Marco Mencoboni (harpsichord), Lorenz Duftschmidt (violone)]
Jordi Savall, dir.
Coro del Centro Musica Antica di Padova
Livio Picotti, choirmaster.
Schola grégorienne
Josep Cabré, dir.

Playing time: 45' 40 + 48' 21" = 94' 01" (95' 43, AVSA)

Recording site and date:
Basilica Santa Barbara, Mantua, Italy [11/1988];
Rel.: 1989 (E), 1999 (ES), 2007 (AVSA)

Compilation:
Astrée (Naïve) ES 9983 [CDx4] Musica Æterna

Excerpts:
[1] Tempo (Auvidis) A 6232 [CD] Religions du monde - Musiques et chants: catholicisme, islam, protestantisme...
[1]-[2] Fontalis (Auvidis) "Portrait" ES 9906 [CD] Offertorium - La Capella Reial de Catalunya
[5] Fontalis (Auvidis) "Portrait" ES 9901 [CD] Montserrat Figueras: La Voix de l'émotion - The Voice of emotion
[12] Fontalis (Auvidis) ES 9902 [CD] Vox Æterna: XIème siècle - XVIIIème siècle

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 354-160 (november 1989) - Diapason d'Or
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 13/4-235 (March/April 1990); 31/5-196 (May/June 2008)

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

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