Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Virgine

Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Virgine
Ensemble Elyma / Coro Antonio Il Verso / Coro Madrigalia / Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse - Gabriel Garrido
K617 7100 (2 CDs)
K617 7136 (2 CDs + catalogue)

Contents:

  1. Deus in adiutorium (plainchant; 6 voices, 6 instruments)
  2. Antiphona I: Dum esset rex (plainchant)
  3. Psalmus I: Dixit Dominus (6 voices, 6 instruments)
  4. Antiphona I - P. Agostini: Dum esset rex (mottetto; 2 voices, continuo)
  5. Antiphona II: Laeva eius (plainchant)
  6. Psalmus II: Laudate peuri (8 voices)
  7. Concentus: Pulcra es (2 voices, continuo)
  8. Antiphona III: Nigra sum (plainchant)
  9. Psalmus III: Laetatus sum (6 voices)
  10. Concentus: Nigra sum (voice, continuo)
  11. Antiphona IV: Iam hiems transiit (plainchant)
  12. Psalmus IV: Nisi Dominus (10 voices)
  1. Concentus: Audi, caelum (6 voices)
  2. Antiphona V: Speciosa facta es (plainchant)
  3. Psalmus V: Lauda Ierusalem (7 voices)
  4. Antiphona V - P. Agostini: Speciosa facta es (mottetto; 2 voices, continuo)
  5. Concentus: Duo Seraphim (3 voices)
  6. Sonata: Sancta Maria ora pro nobis (8 voices)
  7. Hymnus: Ave maris stella (8 voices)

    8. In I Vesperis

  8. Antiphona ad Magnificat: Sancta Maria, succure miseris (plainchant)
  9. Canticum: Magnificat (7 voices, 6 instruments)
  10. Mottetto: Sancta Maria, succure miseris (2 voices, continuo)
  11. Interlude - Kapsberger: Sinfonia decimasesta (4 instruments)

    12. In II Vesperis

  12. Antiphona ad Magnificat: Beatam me dicent (plainchant)
  13. Canticum: Magnificat (6 voices)

Performers: Emanuela Galli (soprano solo), Adriana Fernandez (soprano solo), Martin Oro (countertenor solo), Fabian Schofrin (countertenor solo), Mario Ceccheti (tenor solo), Rodrigo Del Pozo (tenor solo), Pablo Pollitzer (tenor solo), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor solo), Furio Zanasi (baritone solo), Daniele Carnovich (bass solo), Ivan Garcia (bass solo); Pablo Valetti (violin), Olivia Centurioni (violin), Cristiano Contadin (viol), Diana Fazzini (viol), Alessandro Palmeri (cello), Luigi Polsini (double bass), Amico Dolci (recorder, flute), Piero Cartosio (recorder, flute), Daniele Ficola (recorder), Paolo Tognon (dulcian), Guido Morini (organ continuo), Basilio Timpanaro (organ continuo), Ignazio Schifani (harpsichord continuo), Andrea Fossà (cello continuo), Sabina Colonna Preti (violone continuo, lirone continuo), Andrea De Carlo (viol continuo, violone continuo), Eduardo Eguez (theorbo continuo, lute continuo), Hernan Vives (archlute continuo), Silvio Natoli (lute continuo, theorbo continuo), Consuelo Giulianelli (harp continuo); Jean Pierre Canihac (cornetto, direction of brass), Philippe Matharel (cornetto), Judith Pacquier (cornetto), Thierry Durand (sackbut), Bernard Fourtet (sackbut), Daniel Lassalle (sackbut); Teresa Amari (soprano chorus), Donatalla Triolo (soprano chorus), Annelise De Blasi (soprano chorus), Picci Ferrari (soprano chorus), Grazia Gullotta (soprano chorus), Letizia Manzella (soprano chorus), Elisa Di Fatta (soprano chorus), Fortunata Prinzivalli (mezzosoprano chorus), Luisa Migliorino (mezzosoprano chorus), Daniela Algeri (mezzosoprano chorus), Irene Ientile (mezzosoprano chorus), Giuseppe Sportaro (countertenor chorus), Giovanni Caccamo (tenor chorus), Vincenzo Lisi (tenor chorus), Alessio Manno (tenor chorus), Angelo Quartarone (tenor chorus), Vincenzo Di Betta (tenor chorus), Giuseppe Costanzo (tenor chorus), Ugo Guagliardo (bass chorus), Filippo Munda (bass chorus); Nora Tabbush (soprano chorus), Caroline Rilliet (soprano chorus), Nadia Ortega (soprano chorus), Marie Sabine Clemençon (soprano chorus), Francesca Puddu (mezzosoprano chorus), Christophe Heuga (countertenor chorus), Gonzalo Martinez (tenor chorus), Jerome Brunetière (tenor chorus), Gaston Sister (bass chorus), Alejandro Meerapfel (bass chorus), Michele Modena (bass chorus); Gonzalo Martinez (assistant direction), Giuseppe Collisani (edition), Gabriel Garrido (edition, direction)

Playing time: 116'

Recording date: July, 1999 (Erice, Sicily); "memoir" of live concert in Palermo, 15-17 July 1999

Garrido's version has been much-anticipated. It is certainly a high-energy version, with a good deal of sonic variety.

Other recordings of Monteverdi directed by Garrido:

Monteverdi: Orfeo
Ensemble Elyma / Antonio il Verso Chorus - Gabriel Garrido
K617 066 (2 CDs)
Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
Banditelli / Zanasi / Kiehr / Fouchecourt / Coro Antonio Il Verso / Ensemble Elyma - Gabriel Garrido
K617 091/3 (3 CDs)
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Ensemble Elyma / Studio di musica antica Antonio il Verso - Gabriel Garrido
K617 110 (3 CDs)
Gerusalemme Liberata
Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
w/ De Wert, d'India, Marini, Mazzochi, Flamengo, Eredi
Ensemble Elyma - Gabriel Garrido
K617 7076/2 (2 CDs)

And part of another major series which frequently features Garrido:

Les Chemins du Baroque, 8
Araujo: L'Or et l'Argent du Haut Pérou
Ensemble Elyma - Gabriel Garrido
K617 038

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Todd M. McComb