Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine / Marin-Degor, Wieczorek, Stefanowicz, Agnew, Cornwell, Félix, Bayley, Les Arts Florissants, Christie

Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine / Marin-Degor, Wieczorek, Stefanowicz, Agnew, Cornwell, Félix, Bayley, Les Arts Florissants, Christie

Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine / Marin-Degor, Wieczorek, Stefanowicz, Agnew, Cornwell, Félix, Bayley, Les Arts Florissants, Christie
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-15
Music Label: Erato
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Intonatio: Deus in adiutorium - Domine ad adiuvandum - S. Marin-Degor
  2. Antiphon: Dum esset rex in accubito suo - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  3. Nigra sum - P. Agnew
  4. Antiphon: Laeva eius sub capite meo - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  5. Pulchra es, amica mea - S. Marin-Degor
  6. Antiphon: Nigra sum sed formosa - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  7. Sonata a due per violino e violone (G Minor) - Jonathan Rubin
  8. Antiphon: Iam hiems transiit, imber abiit - Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  9. Audi coelum - Omnes hanc ergo sequamur - S. Marin-Degor
Music CD 2
  1. Antiphon: Speciosa facta es - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  2. Sonata a tre per violino, cornetto e violone (A Minor) - Jean-Pierre Canihac
  3. Duo Seraphim - P. Agnew
  4. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria ora pro nobis - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  5. Ave Maris Stella - S. Marin-Degor
  6. Antiphon: Sancta Maria succurre miseris - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  7. Magnificat - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  8. Et exultavit - P. Agnew
  9. Quia respexit - Joseph Cornwell
  10. Quia fecit - Artur Stefanowicz
  11. Et misericordia - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  12. Fecit potentiam - Artur Stefanowicz
  13. Deposuit - Joseph Cornwell
  14. Esurientes - Sophie Marin-Degor
  15. Suscepit Israel - Paul Agnew
  16. Sicut locutus est - Artur Stefanowicz
  17. Gloria Patri - P. Agnew
  18. Sicut erat - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse
  19. Benedicamus Domino - Les Sacqueboutiers De Toulouse

Music reviews of Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine / Marin-Degor, Wieczorek, Stefanowicz, Agnew, Cornwell, Félix, Bayley, Les Arts Florissants, Christie

Music Review: Serene, Solemn, Statuesque Monteverdi
Rating: 5 Stars

If your heart pants for a monumental choral performance of the Vespers, the kind that would fill a basilica with sound, this interpretation by William Christie is the best you'll find. In addition to the nine soloists, Christie employs three chanters and a chorus of twenty-seven; the surprise, with all those voices, is that he doesn't sacrifice much clarity or tonal definition. Verily, recording technology is showing promise! Christie's regular orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, is fortified for this performance by the three cornetts and three tombones of Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse, and by two recorders and a dulcian. I certainly can't fault the addition of the dulcian, even if it's only heard distinctly for a few bars here and there. Every Baroque performance should include a dulcian.

This is the Vespers conceived on a monumental scale that reminds me of the grandly posed paintings of Piero della Francesca or Giovanni Bellini. Check the tempi, for instance, against other performances, especially that of Tragicomedia. Christie takes every movement at least 15% slower. That, of course, may be necessary with such mass vocal forces, but the emotional effect is to emphasize grandeur at the cost of fancifulness. Tragicomedia takes the opposite route, using only the soloists as choir, aiming for sprightliness and clarity instead of power. If I had to choose one performance of the Vespers and discard the other, I'd probably keep the Tragicomedia... until the Magnificat, when Christie's interpretation reaches its climax of awesome magnificence. Fortunately, I can afford to keep both.

Christie inserts two extra instrumental movements into this performance - a sonata for violin and gamba, and a sonata for violin and cornetto with dulcian, both by Giovanni Cima. Given the scale of this performance, the insertions fit very well and sustain the mood perfectly. However, some items of the "concert" version of the Vespers are omitted from this "liturgical" recreation, for reasons that Christie explains in his notes. Unlike the dour sound of the Vespers as conducted by Jordi Savall, the 'mood' Christie creates is one of high counter-reformation glory. This is a very fine recording in every detail, far more impressive than the CDs of the same music conducted by Andrew Parrott and Masaki Suzuki.

But wait! There is yet another superb performance of the Vespers, with all the concert movements but without the antiphons, recorded by Concerto Italiano, with Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting. The singers in Alessandrini's performance are flamboyantly rich and resonant, particularly the basso. The cornetto playing is extraordinary. It's impossible, really, to assign an order of preference among these three, Christie, Alessandrini and Stubbs.
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Monteverdi's Vespers is a monumental collection of musical settings of liturgical texts for a service in honor of the Virgin. It presents a cornucopia of styles, stretching from traditional plainchant to a forward-looking, innovative aesthetic, and bridges the gap between the Renaissance and the beginnings of Baroque musical language. William Christie leads a beautifully sculpted, majestic performance that is responsive to this stylistic profusion but also makes a case for underlying structural cohesion. The instrumental and choral playing is richly textured, while the soloists give exquisitely wrought accounts of Monteverdi's elaborate word painting. --Thomas May
William Christie and his ensemble Les Arts Florissants offer serious competition for Philippe Herreweghe's outstanding version of the Monteverdi Vespers on Harmonia Mundi. What you hear (and subconsciously appreciate) is detail, in the sound as well as in the vocal and instrumental lines. Careful phrasing and dynamics complement the rich harmonies and inspired melodic writing, enhancing the work's inherent drama. Because of the Vespers' incredible variety of musical styles--highly unusual for a liturgical work from this period--and due to its exceptional length (90-plus minutes) and the number of skilled performers it requires, many observers believe the work was simply an "audition" piece for its composer and was never intended for performance as a complete work. This well-paced, virtuosic performance makes a good case for the Vespers as a unified, cohesive piece. The soloists rival the best on disc, except for tenor Paul Agnew, whose "Nigra sum" is in an exalted class by itself. --David Vernier

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