Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
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Performer: Pietro Spagnoli
Performer: Furio Zanasi
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini
Orchestra: Concerto Italiano
Performer: Roberta Invernizzi
Performer: Monica Piccinini
Performer: Anna Simbola
Performer: Vincenzo di Donato
Performer: Gianluca Ferrarini
Performer: Luca Dordolo
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Music Label: Opus 111
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Responsorium domine adiuvandum me festina
  2. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalmus 109. 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: Psalmus 112. 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: Psalmus 121. 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: Psalmus 126. Nisi dominus
  9. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Concerto audi coelum
Music CD 2
  1. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Psalmus 147. Lauda Jerusalem
  2. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Sonata sopra sancta maria
  3. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Ave maris stella
  4. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Magnificat
  5. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Et exultavit
  6. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Quia respexit
  7. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Quia fecit
  8. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Et misericordia
  9. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Fecit potentiam
  10. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Esurientes
  11. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Suscepit Israel
  12. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Sicut locutus est
  13. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Gloria patri
  14. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 1. Sicut erat
  15. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Magnificat
  16. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Et exultavit
  17. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Quia respexit
  18. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Quia fecit
  19. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Fecit potentiam
  20. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Deposuit potentes
  21. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Esurientes
  22. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Suscepit
  23. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Sicut locutus
  24. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Gloria patri
  25. Vespro della beata vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Magnificat 2. Sicut erat

Music reviews of Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Music Review: First choice amongst one-to-a-part versions
Rating: 5 Stars

The Vesper's by Monteverdi have now achieved the status of a landmark work in the history of music which like the music of J.S. Bach gazes Janus-like into the future as well as backwards to the past. As one of the fathers of opera there is a flair and drama that looks forward to the Baroque era while at the same time - as a work written to try to impress the conservative tastes of the Roman papacy - it looks backwards with its complex part writing in the form of parody of a mass by Nicolas Gombert, In Ilio Temporo. Despite Monteverdi's acknowledgement of the rich polyphonic traditions established by the Prima Prattica, his fusion of this with radical new elements appears to have rather disconcerted the papacy and Monteverdi came away from this venture empty handed. I can only imagine the bitterness of the dissappointed this would have caused him as he has clearly put heart and soul into this extraordinary composition, for which only prosterity would acknowledge him long after his death.

Renaldo Alessandrini's reputation has been largely built around his recordings of Monteverdi's music and so the recording of the Monteverdi Vespers is something of a genuine event. The results are everything you could have wished for - even if some of the more dogmatic critics were surprisingly sniffy in their reaction. I too usually tend to fight shy of one-to-a-part performances but when it is done with as much elan as it is here it totally silences all criticism. I love the subtle moudling of phrasing, decoration, and tempi that a smaller ensemble with a highly select group of the best singers allows. The results here are more than just merely refreshing for often they are totally revelatory.

This recording takes pride of precedence amongst one-to-a-part performances of the Vespers. If you have enjoyed Alessandrini's Monteverdi before then get this version without a moment's hesitation. If you dogmatically refuse to have any truck with one-to-a-part then I suggest you go for the Suzuki on BIS - that recording also has a wonderfully ecstatic spontaneity and powerful grasp of the overall inspiration of the work as virtually no other. Really it is a matter of taste which you pick - they are both excellent.

The recording quality here is stunningly vivid and alive as you would expect from Naive. It is however somewhat closely miked - it sounds like you are sitting in the front row near the stage. Still, it is a vivid audiophile quality experience full of wonderfully rich detail, that stands in contrast to the more recessed mid-hall balance of the BIS recording.

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