Monteverdi - Vespers of 1610 (1997)

CD 1:
01] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: I. 'Deus in adiutorium' / 'Domine ad adiuvandum'
02] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Antiphon
03] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: II. Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus
04] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: III. Motet: Nigra sum
05] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Antiphon
06] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: IV. Psalm 112: Laudate pueri
07] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: V. Motet: Pulchra es
08] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Antiphon
09] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: VI. Psalm 121: Laetatus sum
10] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: VII. Motet: Duo Seraphim
11] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Antiphon
12] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: VIII. Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus
13] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: IX. Motet: Audi coelum
14] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Antiphon
15] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: X. Psalm 147: Lauda Jerusalem

CD 2:
01] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XI. Sonata sopra 'Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis'
02] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XII. Hymn: Ave maris stella
03] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Antiphon
04] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIa. Magnificat: Magnificat anima mea
05] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIb. Magnificat: Et exultavit
06] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIc. Magnificat: Quia respexit
07] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIId. Magnificat: Quia fecit mihi magna
08] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIe. Magnificat: Et misericordia
09] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIf. Magnificat: Fecit potentiam
10] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIg. Magnificat: Deposuit potentes de sede
11] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIh. Magnificat: Esurientes implevit bonis
12] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIi. Magnificat: Suscepit Israel
13] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIj. Magnificat: Sicut locutus est
14] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIk. Magnificat: Gloria Patri
15] Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: XIIIl. Magnificat: Sicut erat in principio

Janice Chandler (Soprano)
Karen Clift (Soprano)
Richard Croft (Tenor),
Lynton Atkinson (Tenor)
Brad Diamond (Tenor)
Christopheren Nomura (Baritone),
Jeff Mattsey (Baritone) 

Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman – conductor

This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Awards for "Best Engingeered Album, Classical" and "Best Choral Performance." Claudio Monteverdi's 'Vespers of the Blessed Virgin' are among history's great showpieces, having set new standards for sonic opulence in the early Baroque which are still hard to surpass today. Scored for seven vocal soloists, multiple choirs and orchestra, the Vespers, as published in 1610, are settings of texts common to the various feasts in the church year honoring the Virgin Mary. There is some mystery surrounding the works, as no one is sure for what occasion, if any, they were written, how or where they were first performed and even for what instruments some of the parts were intended.

Boston Baroque's director Martin Pearlman has put together a comparatively large orchestra of twenty-two period instruments with a chorus of thirty voices for this recording. In order to place the music in a liturgical context chants for an appropriate festival must be added and he has done that here with antiphons from the late summer Feast of Assumption. The performance, recorded in a suitably spacious acoustic, does justice to all the facets of this dazzling work, its virtuoso instrumental writing, intimate arias and massive ensembles, proving again that whatever form it takes, it still has the power to amaze. --- arkivmusic.com

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