Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

Amazon.com This performance of Monteverdi's extraordinary collection of sacred music, which received a 1999 Grammy nomination, has its good points, but it can't really be considered best even in its class. Martin Pearlman leads a relatively large-scale performance, using a 30-member chorus (often doubled by instruments) throughout; he adds some plainchant before the Psalms; he takes the Lauda Jerusalem and Magnificat at high pitch. The instrumentalists play their difficult parts quite creditably, and Pearlman takes some exciting tempos. Unfortunately, his chorus can't always keep up with him: they often sound muddy and, in fast passages, sometimes downright sloppy. The soprano soloists sing attractively but with wider vibratos than ideal for this music; the tenors, however, are very good indeed, with Richard Croft's heartfelt, sensitively embellished, beautifully modulated singing deserving an award for Best Performance of Monteverdi by a Mainstream Opera Singer. If you want a full-scale choral performance, though, you'll do better with that of René Jacobs or William Christie, and Andrew Parrott's reconstruction of a Vespers service (done mostly one-singer-per-part) is not to be missed. --Matthew Westphal Product description Monteverdi: Vespers Of 1610 - Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque / Performed on Period Instruments / Telarc 2x Audio CD 1997 / 2CD-80453 UPC 089408045325 /// Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), SV 206, is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs, and orchestra. It is an ambitious work in scope and in its variety of style and scoring, and has a duration of around 90 minutes. Published in Venice (with a dedication to Pope Paul V dated 1 September 1610) as Sanctissimae Virgini Missa senis vocibus ac Vesperae pluribus decantandae, cum nonnullis sacris concentibus, ad Sacella sive Principum Cubicula accommodata ("Mass for the Most Holy Virgin for six voices, and Vespers for several voices with some sacred songs, suitable for chapels and ducal chambers"), it is sometimes called Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. /// Label: Telarc – 2CD-80453 Format: 2 x CD Country: US Released: 1997 Genre: Classical Style: Baroque /// Tracklist: Vespro Della Beata Vergine = Vespers Of The Blessed Virgin (1:33:29) 1-1 I. Deus In Adjutorium / Domine Ad Adjuvandum 2:11 1-2 Antiphon 0:22 1-3 II. Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus 7:28 1-4 III. Motet: Nigra Sum 3:53 1-5 Antiphon 0:31 1-6 IV. Psalm 112: Laudate Pueri 5:47 1-7 V. Motet: Pulchra Es 3:58 1-8 Antiphon 0:25 1-9 VI. Psalm 121: Laetatus Sum 6:27 1-10 VII. Motet: Duo Seraphim 6:58 1-11 Antiphon 0:30 1-12 VIII. Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus 4:23 1-13 IX. Motet: Audi Coelum 9:29 1-14 Antiphon 0:27 1-15 X. Psalm 147: Lauda Jerusalem 4:14 2-1 XI. Sonata Sopra "Sancta Maria, Ora Pro Nobis" 6:32 2-2 XII. Hymn: Ave Maris Stella 8:12 2-3 Antiphon 0:53 2-4 XIII. Magnificat 1. Magnificat Anima Mea 0:48 2-5 XIII. Magnificat 2. Et Exultavit 1:23 2-6 XIII. Magnificat 3. Quia Respexit 1:53
ASIN: B000003D2F
VSKU: DBV.B000003D2F.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Claudio Monteverdi|Martin Pearlman|Boston Baroque|Karen Clift|Brad Diamond|Jeff Mattsey|Lynton Atkinson|Richard Croft|Janice Chandler|Christopheren Nomura
Binding: Audio cd
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