Monteverdi: Vespers [Hybrid SACD]

Monteverdi: Vespers [Hybrid SACD]

Monteverdi: Vespers [Hybrid SACD]
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Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Conductor: Robert King
Performer: King's Consort
Performer: Rebecca Outram
Performer: Carolyn Sampson
Performer: Charles Daniels
Performer: James Gilchrist
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
CD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Deus in adiutorium meum intende
  2. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalm. Dixit Dominus
  3. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Concerto. Nigra sum
  4. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalm. Laudate pueri
  5. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Concerto. Pulchra es
  6. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalm. Laetatus sum
  7. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Concerto. Duo Seraphim
  8. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalm. Nisi Dominus
  9. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Concerto. Audi caelum
  10. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalm. Lauda Ierusalem
  11. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
  12. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Hymn Ave maris stella
Music CD 2
  1. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Magnificat...
  2. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: ... anima mea Dominum
  3. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Et exultavit spiritus meus
  4. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Quia respexit humilitatem
  5. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Quia fecit mihi magna
  6. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Et misericordia eius
  7. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Fecit potentiam in brachio suo
  8. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Deposuit potentes de sede
  9. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Esurientes implevit bonis
  10. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Suscepit Israel puerum suum
  11. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Sicut locutus est
  12. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Gloria Patri
  13. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 7: Sicut erat in principio
  14. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 6: Magnificat...
  15. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 6: ...anima mea Dominum
  16. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 6: Et exultavit spiritus meus
  17. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 6: Quia fecit mihi magna
  18. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat a 6: Et misericordia eius
  19. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Kyrie
  20. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Gloria
  21. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Credo
  22. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Sanctus
  23. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Benedictus
  24. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Agnus Dei 1
  25. Mass de Cappella for 6 voices on Gomberti's motet 'In Illo Tempore' (from Vespers), SV 205: Agnus Dei 2

Music reviews of Monteverdi: Vespers [Hybrid SACD]

Music Review: A top flight version
Rating: 5 Stars

I'm a big fan of the Monteverdi Vespers. I have about 6 versions already, but I was intrigued by this one, knowing what a good job Robert King and Co. have done with other music. And I wasn't disappointed. I can't judge it on the SACD performace, only how it performs as a CD. The recording is crisp and clear and the performance very good. In addition, it is "my" kind of Vespers - full choir, no antiphons, no pulling it apart and reassembling it in some other order. You get all the music in Monteverdi's celebrated 1610 pamphlet, in effect a musical CV - the Magnificat in both 6- and 7-voice versions, plus the Mass that Monteverdi dedicated to the Pope, in the hope of landing a position in Rome (he didn't). I would rate this as the best "normally-recorded" version, better than Suzuki.

So, what do I mean by "normally-recorded". I use it to distinguish from That Other Version, Gardiner's fabulous "live" performance at San Marco, Venice. The Gardiner recording is less crisp, courtesy no doubt of the great spaces of San Marco. Gardiner also augments the instruments in some of the great choruses, such as the "Nisi Dominus", something that horrifies the traditionalists. So this is better than Gardiner? Well, no, actually. To me, there's just something about the Gardiner. Perhaps it's the uniqueness of the occasion, but it just has that extra excitement about it. That additional instrumentation is the sort of thing that one would imagine the Venetians loving, brought up, as they were, on the sonorities of the Gabrielis and their brass choirs. And the Monteverdis sing the music from which they take they name with tremendous committment. Nobody does the big choruses, "Nisi Dominus". "Lauda Jerusalem" better. They thrill me to the core.

So, while I welcome this excellent new version from Robert King, my heart still belongs to Gardiner.

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