Vivaldi - Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (2004)

Disc: 1
1. Allegro Non Molto
2. Intonatio: Deus In Adiutorium
3. Domine Ad Adiuvandum Me Festina: Allegro
4. Gloria Patri: Andante Molto
5. Sicut Erat In Principio: Andante - Allegro
6. Aria: Ascende Laeta: Allegro
7. Recitativo: Quam Pulchri, Quam Formosi
8. Aria: Sternite, Angeli: Presto
9. Dixit Dominus: Allegro
10. Donec Ponam Inimicos Tuos: Largo
11. Virgam Virtutis Tuae: Allegro 	play
12. Tecum Principium: Andante
13. Juravit Dominus: Adagio - Allegro
14. Dominus A Dextris Tuis: Allegro
15. Judicabit In Nationibus: Largo
16. De Torrente In Via: Andante
17. Gloria Patri: Allegro
18. Sicut Erat In Principio: Allegro
19. Antifona Assumpta Est Maria In Caelo
20. Antifona Al Laudate Pueri: Maria Virgo Assumpta Est
21. Laudate Pueri: Allegro
22. Sit Nomen Domini: Largo
23. A Solis Ortu: Allegro
24. Excelsus Super Omnes: Andante
25. Quis Sicut Dominus: Largo
26. Suscitans A Terra: Presto - Adagio - Andante
27. Ut Collecet Eum: Allegro 	play
28. Gloria: Largo
29. Sicut Erat: Allegro
30. Amen: Allegro
31. Antifona Maria Virgo Assumpta Est
32. Antifona Al Laetatus Sum: In Odorem Unguentorum
33. Allegro
34. Antifona In Odorem Unguentorum

Disc: 2
1. Antifona Al Nisi Dominus: Benedicta Filia Tua Domino
2. Nisi Dominus: Allegro
3. Vanum Est Vobis: Largo
4. Surgite Postquam Sederitis: Presto - Adagio
5. Cum Dederit: Andante
6. Sicut Sagittae: Allegro
7. Beatus Vir: Andante
8. Gloria Patri: Larghetto
9. Sicut Erat: Allegro
10. Amen: Allegro
11. Antifona Benedicta Filia Tua Domino
12. Antifona Al Lauda Jerusalem: Pulchra Es Et Decora
13. Allegro
14. Antifona Pulchra Es Et Decora
15. Ave Maris Stella 	play
16. Antifona Al Magnificat
17. Magnificat: Adagio
18. Et Exultavit: Allegro
19. Et Misericordia: Andante Molto
20. Fecit Potentiam: Presto
21. Deposuit Potentes: Allegro
22. Esurientes Implevit Bonis: Allegro
23. Suscepit Israel: Largo - Allegro - Adagio
24. Sicut Locutus: Allegro Ma Poco
25. Gloria Patri: Largo - Andante – Allegro 	play
26. Adagio E Staccato - Allegro Ma Poco Poco
27. Largo
28. Allegro
29. Salve Regina: Andante
30. Ad Te Clamamus: Allegro
31. Ad Te Suspiramus: Larghetto
32. Eja Ergo: Allegro
33. Et Jesum: Allegro Molto
34. O Clemens: Andante

Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
Anna Simboli (soprano)
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor)
Matteo Bellotto (baritone)
Antonio De Secondi (violin)

Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini – conductor

Try a little Vivaldi for a change! The Solemn Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption are music on about the same scale as Handel's Messiah, and they are anything but solemn. The musical mood ranges from boisterous exuberance to serene exaltation, with only a splash of anguish in the alto solo of the Laudate Pueri, when mention is made of barrenness. The texts are almost all the same Latin antiphons and psalms set by Claudio Monteverdi in his Vespers of 1610. A single year of composition can't be assigned to these Vespers, however, since the whole set is a hypothetical reconstruction drwn from various sources of Vivaldi's sacred music. Yes, Virginia, Vivaldi was a priest, and wrote quite a lot of sacred music, together with at least 46 operas. The Four Seasons, universally execrated as the choice for "May I put you on hold" in every dentist's phone in the world, is only the tiniest smidgeon of Vivaldi's output. Scoffers, get over it! The music of the Vespers purls forth in seamless melody and contrapuntal invention like the sparkling waters of the Trevi Fountain. To spurn Vivaldi is to declare that you don't like fun! Besides, it's all in Latin, so you don't need to politely ignore any pious hogwash.

The singers of Concerto Italiano are in fact all Italian - Gemma Bertagnolli, Roberta Invernizzi, Anna Simboli, Sara Mingardo, Gianluca Ferrarini, Matteo Belloto, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini. Just singing their names would give me a spritz of 'bel canto.' If you're familiar with the superb recordings by Concerto Italiano of Monteverdi's eight books of madrigals, these singers will be familiar names to you already, and will amount to a pretty good guarantee of the vocal virtuosity of this performance. The principal violinist is also Italian, Antonio De Secondi. Just as the best performances of Handel usually feature English singers and choristers, it seems to me that the Italians have a special feeling for Vivaldi. I believe they call it "Gioia".

The Vespers, by the way, are not included in the Brilliant Classics Box of Vivaldi Masterworks, except for the Magnificat. This performance is far superior to that of the ensemble in the box. I should point out that, as a conjectural Vespers, these two CDs are more a concert selection of fine individual pieces than a unified work. Alessandrini has chosen to order them following the fairly standard liturgical sequence for Marian Vespers. Nothing wrong with that, but the result is that the parts are greater than the sum. –Giordano Bruno

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