Pergolesi: Marian Vespers

Pergolesi: Marian Vespers

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Composer: Giovanni Pergolesi
Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Performer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Conductor: Edward Higginbottom
Performer: Edward Higginbottom
Orchestra: Edward Higginbottom
Performer: Academy of Ancient Music
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music
Performer: Simon Birchall
Conductor: Simon Birchall
Performer: Sophie Daneman
Performer: Noemi Kiss
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-28
Music Label: Warner Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Introit. Deus, in adjutorium
  2. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Introit. Gloria Patri
  3. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Introit. Sicut erat in principio
  4. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Introit. Alleluia
  5. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Dixit Dominus
  6. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Virgam virtutis
  7. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Dominare
  8. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Tecum principium
  9. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Juravit Dominus
  10. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Dominus a dextris
  11. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Gloria Patri
  12. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm I. Sicut erat in principio
  13. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for violin & basso continuo. 1. Larg
  14. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for violin & basso continuo. 2. Alle
  15. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Confitebor
  16. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Confessio
  17. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Fidelia omnia
  18. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Redemptionem misit
  19. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Sanctum et terribile
  20. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Gloria Patri
  21. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm II. Sicut erat in principio
  22. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for violin & basso continuo. 3. Larg
  23. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for violin & basso continuo. 4. Spir
  24. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. Laudate pueri
  25. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. A solis ortu
  26. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. Excelsus super omnes
  27. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. Quis sicut Dominus
  28. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. Suscitans a terra
  29. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. Gloria Patri
  30. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Psalm III. Sicut erat in principio
Music CD 2
  1. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Hymn. Lucis Creator optime
  2. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for cello & basso continuo. 1. Comod
  3. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for cello & basso continuo. 2. Alleg
  4. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Magnificat. Magnificat anima mea
  5. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Magnificat. Quia fecit mihi magna
  6. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Magnificat. Suscepit Israel
  7. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Magnificat. Gloria Patri
  8. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for cello & basso continuo. 3. Adagi
  9. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Sonata for cello & basso continuo. 4. Prest
  10. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Marian Antiphon. Salve Regina
  11. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Marian Antiphon. Ad te clamamus
  12. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Marian Antiphon. Ad te suspiramus
  13. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Marian Antiphon. Eia ergo
  14. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Marian Antiphon. Et Jesum benedictum
  15. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Marian Antiphon. O Clemens
  16. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Collect. Ora pro nobis
  17. Marian Vespers, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra (reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno): Collect. Amen

Music reviews of Pergolesi: Marian Vespers

Music Review: One of the Great Tragedies of Musical History
Rating: 4 Stars

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born in 1710 and died at the age of 25 in 1736, twenty years before Mozart was born. If Mozart had died at 25, his last opera would have been Idomeneo and none of his greatest works, from the Abduction from the Seraglio to the Requiem, would have been composed. And think what music would never have been written if only 25 years had been allotted to Lassus, Haydn, or Janacek! Breath for mortal breath, one could make a case by comparison that Pergolesi was the greatest prodigy in musical history, particularly since his final works, the ineffable Stabat mater and the sublime Salve Regina, were composed on his death bed. What might he have written if he'd lived to a mature 35?

If it's the choicest performance of those two masterpieces that you want, read no further! My immediate recommendation would be the recording by Il Seminario Musicale, with Gerard Lesne and Veronique Gens singing. The Salve Regina is included on Disk 2 of this "Marian Vespers", sung by Sophie Danemen and Noemi Kiss with all the musical forces of Oxford backing them up, but the performance doesn't approach the exquisite virtuosity of Lesne's. The chief interest of this 2-CD recording by the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of New College Oxford is in the presentation of three Psalm settings -- Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, and Confiteabor -- usually incorporated in Marian vespers but composed independently at various stages of Pergolesi's short life. The 'Confiteabor' is an awesome piece, as fine as anything Pergolesi wrote, but all three Psalms could stand alone in concert performance. Stitching them together as elements of a hypothetical Vespers on the scale of Monteverdi's neither adds nor detracts from their magnificence.

Honestly, Pergolesi never wrote such a monumental Marian Vespers, and if he wrote anything approximating it, that music has been lost. Musicologist Malcolm Bruno has assembled the three Psalms and the Salve Regina with two sonatas for strings and a number of "contrafacta", that is, unfinished or sketchy compositions that he has, to one degree or another, reconstructed. The least effective of Bruno's contrafacta, to my ears, is the "Magnificat", which he has based on an incomplete secular cantata, underlaying the liturgical text and orchestrating the four movements quite grandly. The orchestration and the use of a large chorus, Bruno admits in his notes, is not what Giovanni Battista would have expected; to my taste, there's more of the English Handel in it than of the Italian Pergolesi. Let's be blunt. Heard as a single composition, this Marian Vespers lacks any kind of cohesion or development. The splitting of the two string sonatas into 'intermezzi' between the psalms was a bad idea, a fragmentation of Pergolesi's subtle symmetry that only adds to the 'jumpiness'.

I'd probably feel more generous toward this performance if it were offered as a program of separate compositions, rather than as a grandiose Reconstruction by an over-confident academic. And yet... like the previous reviewer who made the same complaints, I'm delighted enough by the singing and playing, and thrilled enough to have any recordings of the three Psalm settings, that I consider four stars the least I could award. After all, if I could descend to Hades like Orpheus or Hercules, and offer myself as a surrogate for Pergolesi, I'd at least consider the sacrifice.
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