Antonio Vivaldi – Sacred Works (Corboz) [2001]

Disc: 1
1. Gloria in D, RV 589: Gloria Excelsis
2. Gloria in D, RV 589: Et In Terra Pax
3. Gloria in D, RV 589: Laudamus Te
4. Gloria in D, RV 589: Gratias Agimus
5. Gloria in D, RV 589: Propter Magnam Gloriam
6. Gloria in D, RV 589: Domine Deus
7. Gloria in D, RV 589: Domine Fili Unigenite
8. Gloria in D, RV 589: Domine Deus
9. Gloria in D, RV 589: Qui Tollis
10. Gloria in D, RV 589: Qui Sedes
11. Gloria in D, RV 589: Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus
12. Gloria in D, RV 589: Cum Sancto Spiritu
13. Kyrie in g, RV 587: Kyrie
14. Kyrie in g, RV 587: Christe
15. Kyrie in g, RV 587: Kyrie
16. Credo in e, RV 591: Credo In Unum Deum - Ens Vocal De Lausanne
17. Credo in e, RV 591: Et Incarnatus Est - Ens Vocal De Lausanne
18. Credo in e, RV 591: Crucifixus Etiam Pro Nobis - Ens Vocal De Lausanne
19. Credo in e, RV 591: Et Resurrexit - Ens Vocal De Lausanne
20. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Magnificat
21. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Et Exultavit
22. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Et Misericordia
23. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Fecit Potentiam
24. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Deposuit Potentes
25. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Esurientes
26. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Suscepit Israel
27. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Sicut Iocutus Est
28. Magnificat in g, RV 610: Gloria

Disc: 2
1. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Beatus Vir
2. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Potens In Terra
3. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Gloria Et Divitiae
4. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Exortum Est
5. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Jucundus Homo
6. Beatus Vir, RV 597: In Memoria Aeterna
7. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Paratum Cor Ejus
8. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Peccator Videbit
9. Beatus Vir, RV 597: Gloria Patri
10. Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera: Larghetto - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
11. Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera: Recitativo - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
12. Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera: Allegro - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
13. Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera: Allegro - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
14. Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609
15. Canta In Prato: Allegro - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacotte
16. Canta In Prato: Recitativo - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacotte
17. Canta In Prato: Allegro - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacotte
18. Canta In Prato: Allegro (Alleluia) - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacotte
19. In Furore: Allegro - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
20. In Furore: Recitativo - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
21. In Furore: Largo - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet
22. In Furore: Allegro (Alleluia) - Jennifer Smith/Wally Staempfli/Verena Schweizer/Uta Spreckelsen/Christine Jacottet

Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne
Ensemble Instrumental de Lausanne
Philippe Corboz – organ
Christiane Jaccottet – harpsichord
Michel Corboz – conductor

This is a reissue of parts of a set of recordings from the 1970s (and some from 1990) first released as a set in 1998 as part of Philips's Vivaldi Edition. It contains some of Vivaldi's sacred music for solo voice and for which together make up some of Vivaldi's very finest work which is often exciting, often wonderfully beautiful and always deeply satisfying, although important pieces from the original edition like Stabat Mater, Nulla in mundo pax sincera and Juditha Triumphans are missing here.

The musicians and singers here are excellent, many of them real stars like Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and so on and Negri is a fine conductor, but for me this set hasn't aged very well. The style of performance feels very out of kilter with what I want in baroque music, with a lot of vibrato and rather grand romantic gestures, and it lacks the supple spring in the step this music often needs. I far prefer the simple, limpid loveliness of Emma Kirkby with Christopher Hogwood - also from the 1970s but far ahead in ideas of performance ( eg. Vivaldi : Gloria (Nulla in mundo pax sincera)).

None of this is helped by the recording, which is set in often very resonant acoustics with the choir sounding distant from the microphones so that they have a rather turgid, indistinct air which saps some of the power and zing from pieces like the Gloria in D. --- Sid Nuncius, amazon.com

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