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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Raphaël Pichon

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released September 1, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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It is hard to know where to begin enumerating the beauties of this release by the Pygmalion ensemble and its director, Raphaël Pichon, who enumerates his thoughts on Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine in the interview-style booklet. There are many good recordings of this work, sometimes known as the Vespers of 1610. Right from the beginning, with the exultant blaze of unchanging harmony in the opening Invitatorium that announced, just as clearly as anything in the opera Orfeo, that the musical world had changed, the effect of this performance is exceptionally powerful, but it is not only the glittering tutti that impresses. Perhaps even more than Orfeo, the Vespers marshal all the musical resources Monteverdi had at his disposal. There are operatic arias in all but text, handled perfectly by well-chosen soloists who master the ornamentation idioms of the day. There are polychoral brass pieces that show Monteverdi's development of that style prior to his move to St. Mark's in Venice. There is old-school polyphony and straight monody. In Pichon's hands, all these styles are held in perfect balance. Harmonia Mundi's sound, from the Temple du Saint-Esprit in Paris, evokes the splendor of the ducal chapel in Mantua for which the Vespers were written. There is much more that could be said, but let it suffice to observe that even those who think they know the Vespers well will rethink that position after hearing this remarkable recording, which rightfully made classical best-seller charts in the late summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Monteverdi: Vespro

La tempête

Classical - Released October 4, 2019 | Alpha Classics

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Do not adjust your set, there is no mistake: you're not listening to a Marcel Perez record. This is indeed the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin by Monteverdi for the label Alpha. Simon- Pierre Bestion, faithful fixture of the Cris de Paris and Insula Orchestra, conducts his own ensemble, La Tempête. With its wild vocal polyphonics, it is rooted in the folk traditions of Sardinia and Corsica. These Vespers are simply stunning, and enriched by Gregorian faux-bourdons. As the instrumentation wasn't always set down precisely, the orchestra is able to make use of uncommon timbres, while still respecting the Italian cosmopolitanism of the Venice of the day (a shofar, harps, trombones, chitarrones). Published (in part) just after Orfeo (1607) and Arianna (1608), also by Monteverdi, this collection of Vespers (1610) remains mysterious in spite of the best efforts of musicologists. Its different portions were most likely written at different moments in the musician's career. Some pieces will have been written prior to its publication, and others added rather later. The response Domine ad adjuvandum, which uses the same material as the toccata from the overture to Orfeo, corroborates this picture. Simon-Pierre de Bestion's interpretation of this text is unique, and based on a conception of the rites that is full of solemnity and trance. The grandiose score bursts the normal bounds of the form and invites such a re-reading: its daring stretches out time, and the varied succession of the pieces within it dazzle us time and time again, thanks to the musical audacity of these thrilling artists. © Elsa Siffert/Qobuz
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Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine

Claudio Monteverdi

Classical - Released January 1, 1989 | Alia Vox

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Piazzolla & Monteverdi: Una Utopía Argentina

Capella Mediterranea

Classical - Released September 25, 2012 | Ambronay Éditions

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Collegium Vocale Gent

Classical - Released January 1, 1992 | Phi

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This is a long way from the richness of the gilt and mosaics of Venice's San Marco, in this new Vespro della Beata Vergine by Claudio Monteverdi, recorded by Philippe Herreweghe in the summer of 2017. Above all, the Flemish chief is interested in intimacy; and he knows this extraordinary score like the back of his hand, having conducted it very often, recording it for the first time in 1986 (for harmonia mundi) with the Collegium Vocale Gent, La Chapelle Royale and the Sacqueboutiers of Toulouse. Philippe Herreweghe is looking for the purest possible expression of piety, using a whole range of methods with sophistication, and a sparse but perfect unity between the vocal soloists and the solo instrumentalists. In this masterpiece, which represents an audacious alloy of the "stile antico" and the "stile moderno", it seems that Philippe Herreweghe wanted to highlight the former. With its famous Virgin, flanked by Della Robbia's saints and the mystery of its catacombs which lead who-knows-where, the beautiful church of San Francesco di Asciano, not far from Siena, is being used more and more for concerts and recordings: does its inspiring ambiance call out for music? © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)

Christina Pluhar

Sacred Vocal Music - Released January 31, 2011 | Warner Classics

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Monteverdi: Il Vespro della Beata Vergine

Jean Tubéry

Sacred Vocal Music - Released April 12, 2019 | Ligia

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Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers

Andrew Parrott

Classical - Released January 1, 1984 | Warner Classics

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Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine

Leonardo García Alarcón

Classical - Released April 21, 2014 | Ambronay Éditions

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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine

La Chapelle Royale

Classical - Released November 6, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

La Compagnia del Madrigale

Classical - Released April 14, 2017 | Glossa

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The Vespers for the Blessed Virgin by Monteverdi – Vespro della Beata Vergine – is, so to speak, a work made up of many works. The composer seems to have put everything he had into this piece, which appeared in Venice in 1610. It is as if he wanted to use it as an immense catalogue of all his skills: his facility with ancient and modern styles; with the strict and the flamboyant; with instrumentals, vocals, choruses, solos, parody masses, the magnificat, psalms... Perhaps he wanted to use the work as a CV in Venice, where he would indeed land a job as choirmaster in 1613? The fact that several passages are written for two choirs would seem to support this idea. Elaborate job application or not, in this work Monteverdi has produced one of his most durable masterpieces, which forms a bridge between the late Renaissance - with passages taken from prima practica, the style developed by Palestrina - and the nascent Baroque style, and its seconda practica which was so dear to Monteverdi, and which would free the use of dissonance from its old straitjacket. For this recording, Giuseppe Maletto has brought together the rich talents of La Compagnia del Madrigale and the Cantica Symphonia and La Pifarescha ensembles, because it takes a whole lot of talent to give the Vespers the treatment it deserves.
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Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine

William Christie

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released August 20, 1998 | Warner Classics International

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Ludus Modalis

Classical - Released October 12, 2018 | Ramée

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The present recording constitutes more than just a new version of the Vespers. It is the first recording of the Vespers in the alternative version proposed by the composer, without concertato instruments. It reveals the underlying matrix of the work we all know, the ‘original version’ to which Monteverdi added concertato instruments for use in large-scale performances. Respecting the structure of the Office of Vespers, Ludus Modalis has chosen to frame the psalms with the antiphons corresponding to a Marian ceremony. The interpretation proposed here is one influenced by the Renaissance tradition. It places the work in perspective in a musical world at the point of equilibrium between prima and seconda prattica, between the achievements of tradition and the contributions of modernity. © Alpha/Outhere
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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Classical - Released January 1, 1987 | Warner Classics

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Monteverdi: Donna - Madrigali e mottetti a due voci femminili

Il Festino

Classical - Released May 3, 2019 | Musica Ficta

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610

Coro della Radio Svizzera

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Arts Productions Ltd

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Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine

Roberto Zarpellon

Classical - Released December 16, 2022 | Fra Bernardo

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Robert Craft

Classical - Released May 1, 1967 | Sony Classical

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Monteverdi: Memories

Capella de la Torre

Classical - Released May 6, 2022 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610, etc.

Monteverdi Choir

Classical - Released January 1, 1994 | Decca Music Group Ltd.