Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610
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Performer: John Shirley-QuirkPerformer: Michael Rippon
Performer: Jennifer Ward Clarke
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
Composer: Giovanni Battista Bassani
Composer: Giovanni Bassano
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Performer: James Bowman
Performer: Charles Brett
Performer: John Angelo Messana
Performer: The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Performer: Philip Jones Wind Ensemble
Performer: David Monrow Recorder Ensemble
Performer: Nicholas Kraemer
Performer: Robert Spencer
Orchestra: Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
Orchestra: Monteverdi Orchestra
Performer: Malcolm Hicks
Performer: Alastair Ross
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-10-11
Music Label: Decca
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Music CD 1
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Deus in adjutorium meum intende - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Domine ad adjuvandum me festina - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Psalmus 109: Dixit Dominus - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Concerto: Nigra sum - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Psalmus 112: Laudate, pueri, Dominum - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Concerto: Pulchra es - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Psalmus 121: Laetatus sum - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Concerto: Duo Seraphim - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Psalmus 126: Nisi Dominus - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Concerto: Audi, coelum - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Psalmus 147: Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Sonata sopra 'Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis' - C. Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Hymnus: Ave maris stella - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Magnificat - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Et exultavit - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Quia respexit - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Quia fecit mihi magna - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Et misericordia eius - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Fecit potentiam - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Deposuit potentes - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Esurientes implevit bonis - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Suscepit Israel - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Sicut locutus est - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Gloria Patri - Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Sicut erat in principio - Claudio Monteverdi
- Audite principes - Claudio Monteverdi
- Hodie Christus natus est - Claudio Monteverdi
- Angelus ad pastores - Claudio Monteverdi
- Quem vidistis, pastores? - Claudio Monteverdi
- Salvator noster - Claudio Monteverdi
- O magnum mysterium - Claudio Monteverdi
- Exultent caeli - Claudio Monteverdi
Music reviews of Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610
Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner May Seem Omnipresent...
Rating: 1 Stars
... but he's not omnipotent or infallible. And even in 1974, when this performance was recorded, he had the resources to do better. This is easily the worst, most over-conducted, most misinterpreted recording of the Vespro della Beata Vergine ever offered to the public by any conductor with "historical performance" credibility. If it were the first Gardiner I'd ever heard, I assure you I'd never give the man a second chance.
What's so bad about it? As I said, it's bizarrely over-conducted, with arbitrary and inconsequential changes of tempo and dynamic whenever John Eliot's baton twitched. The chorus is rough and bellowy. The soloists -especially the outside voices, soprano and baritone - sound as if they're singing through a kazoo at times, or as if an 'ugly filter' had been placed over their microphones. The sopranos and tenors have gross tuning problems often enough to substantiate the critics of 'early music' who say we have insufficient training... and yet these singers, some of them at least, are fairly reputable opera stars. The orchestra is murky, loud, undependable in tuning, and not even authentic in instrumentation! If a large state university, or even a medium-sized Lutheran college in upper Minnesota, staged a performance of the Vespers, I'd expect a more musical event than this.
Besides, the recording quality is dreadful. John Eliot would do his reputation a favor by pulling this canine CD off the market. Do notice, please, that Gardiner issued another performance of the Vespers, with entirely different forces, in 1990; nothing I say in this review is pertinent to that performance.
Description of Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610
One of the most grand and eloquent liturgical works ever written, Monteverdi's Vespers has enjoyed near-perpetual favor with performers and listeners since its composition in 1610. It may have been written for use as an "audition" piece for the position of maestro di cappella at the famed St. Mark's cathedral in Venice. Whatever its motivation, this is a most ambitious and stylistically fascinating compendium that sets out the eight chants of the Mass Ordinary, interspersed with four motets and an instrumental piece. The 90- minute work includes soloists, chorus, and orchestra. Not until Bach would there be a religious work on this scale. Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir adopt a decidedly "un-period" sound on this mid-'70s recording, with free vocal vibrato and a mix of modern and period instruments. This two-for-one disc set also includes motets by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, and Bassani. --David VernierGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( G ) > Gabrieli, Giovanni
- ( M ) > Monteverdi, Claudio
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( M ) > Monteverdi Choir
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Vocal Non-Opera > Motets
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- Pop > Vocal Pop > General
- Monteverdi, Claudio - Works by Monteverdi
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