Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Virgine

Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Virgine
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra - John Elliott Gardiner
London 443 482-2 [2 CDs]

Contents:

    CD-1
    Claudio Monteverdi:
  1. Deus in adjutorium meum intende
  2. Domine ad adjuvandum me festina
  3. Psalmus 109: Dixit Dominus
  4. Concerto: Nigra sum
  5. Psalmus 112: Laudate, pueri, Dominum
  6. Concerto: Pulchra es
  7. Psalmus 121: Laeratus sum
  8. Concerto: Duo Seraphim
  9. Psalmus 126: Nisi Dominus
  10. Concerto: Audi, coelum
  11. Psalmus 147: Lauda, Jerusalem. Dominum
  12. Sonata sopra "Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis"

    13. CD-2
    Claudio Monteverdi:
  13. Hymnus: Ave maris stella
  14. Magnificat
  15. Et exultavit
  16. Quia respexit
  17. Quia fecit mihi magna
  18. Et misericordia ejus
  19. Fecit potentiam
  20. Disposuit potentes
  21. Esurientes implevit bonus
  22. Suscepit Israel
  23. Sicut locotus est
  24. Gloria Patri
  25. Sicut erat in principio

    26. G. Gabrieli:
  26. Audite principes

    27. G. Bassano:
  27. Hodie Christus natus est

    28. G. Gabrieli:
  28. Angelus ad pastores
  29. Quem vidistis, pastores ?
  30. Salvator noster
  31. O magnum mysterium

    32. Claudio Monteverdi:
  32. Exultent caeli

Playing time: CD 69' 48" + 71' 32"

Performers:
[1]-[25] Jill Gomez (soprano), Felicity Palmer (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Michael Rippon (bass), The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra [Kenneth Sillito, leader], Salisbury Cathedral Boy's Choir [Richard Seal, choir master], Philipp Jones Brass Ensemble, David Munrow Recorder Ensemble [presumably: David Munrow, John Turner, David Pugsley, Alan Lumsden, Andrew van der Beck], continuo: Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichorsd), Malcolm Hicks (organ), Alastair Ross (organ), Robert Spencer (lute), Jennifer ward Clarke (cello) - John Elliott Gardiner, dir.
[26]-[32] Monteverdi Choirs, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Philip Jones Wind Ensemble - John Elliott Gardiner, dir.

Recording site and date:
[1]-[25] St Jude on the Hill, Hamstead Garden Suburb, London, UK [01/1974]
[26]-[32] Kingsway Hall, London [04/1972]

Other releases (identical, first and re-releases):
33 r.p.m.: none
CD: none

Other releases (compilation):
33 r.p.m.: none
Cassette: none
CD: none

Other releases (excerpts):
33 r.p.m.:
[1]-[25] Decca SET 593/4 [2-LPs] Vespro della Beata Virgine
[26]-[32] Decca Ace of Diamonds SDD 363 Christmas in Venice
Cassette: none
CD:[1]-[25] Decca 414 572-2DH2 Vespro della Beata Virgine

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 50/595 (dec. 1972 (as Ace of Diamonds SDD 363) 52/623-1850 (april 1975 (as Decca SET 593/4)); 63/753 (feb. 1986 (as 414 572-2DH2))
Diapason (#-p.):
Fanfare (#-p):

Comments: Information fronm Gramophone catalogue 1975 & 1991. David Munrow is not stated on the LP as an interpret, nor his recorder ensemble, but as a recorder ensemble on the CDs release.

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