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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus

Maarten Engeltjes

Sacred Vocal Music - Released March 22, 2024 | PentaTone

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater for soprano, alto, and strings is among the standards of 18th century sacred music, and Vivaldi's alto cantata Nisi Dominus, RV 608, is hardly less known. There are plenty of recordings available for both, but this one from the small Baroque orchestra PRJCT Amsterdam, marking that group's debut on the PentaTone Classics label, is a real standout. The soloists, countertenor Maarten Engeltjes on the alto part and (in the Pergolesi) soprano Shira Patchornik, are excellent, with voices that match in a way, having a penetrating quality that brings out the details of their lines in duets. The real stars, though, are the ensemble players themselves performing without a conductor. Mozart's mentor, Padre Martini, criticized Pergolesi's Stabat Mater for being too operatic and indeed too similar to the music in Pergolesi's comic opera La serva padrona. However, that is exactly the key to the work, to its exuberance in the midst of tragedy. The players of PRJCT Amsterdam set a suspenseful mood in the opening measures of the famous opening duet, and if "Fac, ut ardeat" does sound like an operatic love duet, that may be an entirely accurate interpretation. Engeltjes alone does not flag in the Vivaldi; sample the gorgeous and entirely original "Cum dederit," one of Vivaldi's masterstrokes of simplicity, for a taste of his voice at its best. PentaTone's sound from the Schellingwouderkerk in Amsterdam is ideal, and it is no surprise that this release made classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2024.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Antonio Vivaldi : Gloria - Dixit Dominus

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

Sacred Vocal Music - Released July 15, 2012 | naïve classique

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Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (Vivaldi Ed. vol.11)

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Classical - Released September 30, 2003 | naïve classique

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Vivaldi : Il Giustino

Ottavio Dantone

Full Operas - Released November 16, 2018 | naïve classique

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Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater

Ensemble Matheus

Classical - Released January 2, 2008 | naïve classique

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ANTONIO: Lotti - Caldara - Vivaldi

Alex Potter

Classical - Released June 2, 2023 | audite Musikproduktion

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Vivaldi: In furore, laudate pueri e concerti sacri

Sandrine Piau

Classical - Released January 1, 2005 | naïve classique

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Vivaldi: Vespro a San Marco

Choeur de Chambre de Namur

Classical - Released April 28, 2010 | Ambronay Éditions

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The title of the two-disc album, Vivaldi: Vespro a San Marco, implies that the composer wrote a set of pieces comparable to Monteverdi's Vespro della beata Vergine, but the title needs to be interpreted somewhat loosely. The program notes describe the collection of psalms, canticles, motets, and prefatory chants recorded here as an evocation of a service of vespers Vivaldi might have assembled rather than a reconstruction of one he actually ever did. These vespers are distinctly Vivaldian in idiom, but they resemble Monteverdi's in the use of some common texts and in the diversity of musical styles, genres, and performing forces assembled; there is not much of a sense of unity in the traditional sense, but a profusion of delightfully varied musical vignettes, including a cappella chants, solos, ensembles, choruses, and instrumental pieces. The bugaboo of run-of-the-mill Vivaldi performances is most frequently a squared-off regularity that makes the music come across as undifferentiated and blocky. The superlative performances by Leonardo García Alarcón leading Choeur de Chambre de Namur and the chamber orchestra Les Agrémens (also based in Namur) are anything but run-of-the-mill. Alarcón consistently finds the musical individuality of Vivaldi's lines and invests them with unambiguous emotional meaning. He creates elegantly shapely contours even in the most rhythmically severe movements like the fugal counterpoint of "Donec ponam" from the Dixit Dominus, and consistently heightens the music's expressive lyricism. The soloists are also terrific, singing both with distinctiveness in their solos and with a gorgeous blend in the many ensembles. Sopranos Maria Soledad and Mariana Flores and bass Alejandro Meerapfel stand out for their especially sumptuous timbres and the musicality of their interpretations. All the singers and players sound like they are having a wonderful time performing this music and their enthusiasm is infectious. The sound of the live performances is clear, warmly present, and mostly clean except for some page turning and shuffling.© TiVo
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Vivaldi: Gloria; Nisi Dominus; Nulla in mundo pax

Julia Lezhneva

Classical - Released March 23, 2018 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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An organist (he worked with Gaston Litaize in Paris), choirmaster, and conductor, Diego Fasolis is a vital part of baroque music. In 1995 he founded the Vanitas ensemble in Lugano, and then I Barocchisti (“the Baroques”) which represents the refoundation of the famous Società cameristica di Lugano set up by Loehrer in 1961 to which we owe the first great recordings of Claudio Monteverdi's Madrigals. The ensemble took a great leap forward in its new incarnation under Fasolis' baton. The Barocchisti recordings have been showered with awards and great international soloists regularly come to collaborate with them, including Philippe Jaroussky, Maurice Steger, Max Emanuel Cencic, and, in recent years, Cecilia Bartoli who has set up a close collaboration. With Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva and Argentine counter-tenor Franco Fagioli, I Barocchisti offer us a particularly joyful vision of two of Vivaldi's vocal masterpieces, wreathed in the same slightly-naive halo as worn by the Madonnas painted in all of Venice's churches. The motet Nulla in mundo pax for soprano and continuo completes this radiant Vivaldi album with its image of an ideal world nestled in a comforting bubble. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Sacroprofano

Tim Mead

Classical - Released January 20, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Vivaldi’s scores have proven to have exceptional longevity. The Venetian composer carefully built up a collection of his own musical manuscripts, which were transferred (almost intact) to the National University Library in Turin after his death, where they remain to this day. Across a number of years, this extraordinarily rich collection has been unearthed, realised and recorded.Although this new album doesn’t feature any discographic debuts, it does bring together six particularly remarkable works from Vivaldi’s prime era. It mixes the secular and the sacred as if to underline the absence of stylistic boundaries between two domains that almost seem to nourish each other. The programme also provides English countertenor Tim Mead with the opportunity to showcase his talent as an accomplished artist through four vocal works. These pieces are joined by two instrumental works that are equally magnificent. Tim Mead completed most of his musical and academic training at the renowned King’s College Cambridge and is one of the best representatives of English vocal excellence.In addition to the famous and often-recorded Nisi Dominus, the programme includes Salve Regina in G minor and two chamber cantatas, Amor, hai vinto, hai vinto and Cessate, omai cessate. The latter tells the sad story of a lover who commits suicide after being betrayed by the ruthless Dorilla. The London-based Arcangelo ensemble is conducted by Jonathan Cohen, a British pianist and composer who has quickly established himself as one of the best of his kind in the Baroque world. ©François Hudry/Qobuz
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Vivaldi!

Sandrine Piau

Classical - Released May 31, 2010 | naïve

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Vivaldi: Gloria / Handel: Dixit Dominus

Monteverdi Choir

Classical - Released September 1, 2001 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

Handel: Silete Venti, Gloria, Salve Regina – Vivaldi: Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera

Grace Davidson

Classical - Released June 29, 2018 | Signum Records

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English soprano Grace Davidson is a member of The Sixteen who has also appeared on film soundtrack recordings. Here she makes her solo orchestral debut with a logical program bound together by the fact that all the music is extremely virtuosic, and on top of that little-known. Particularly interesting is the Gloria, HWV deest, of Handel; the only reason this counterpart to Vivaldi's famed Gloria, RV 589, is not better known is that it was rediscovered only in 2001. Start your sampling with its opening movement to hear both the recording's strengths and its more questionable aspects. In the former column is the engineering, getting a nice, bright clarity from the All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London. And likewise the music, so redolent of the competitive vocal atmosphere in which both Handel and Vivaldi worked. The venerable Academy of Ancient Music under Joseph Crouch is a good fit for Davidson here with its light, restrained affect. And it is easy to imagine Davidson in the small chapels for which several of these works were probably composed. Which brings you to the issue you'll have to evaluate for yourself: Davidson is a chamber-sized soprano, and it's easy to imagine these works sung with more power. In the Handel Gloria, note how she takes the runs precisely, blooming into vibrato only on longer notes. It's a chamber cantata sound in music that's a bit operatic, although sacred, and it may or may not ring your bell. In either case, the album is worth your time and money for bringing these neglected vocal works out of the shadows.© TiVo
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Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi)

Le Palais royal

Classical - Released March 22, 2024 | Aparté

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Vivaldi: Gloria/Nisi Dominus/4 Cantatas etc.

Emma Kirkby

Classical - Released January 1, 1997 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Haydn: Nelson Mass / Vivaldi: Gloria in D / Handel: Zadok the Priest

Elizabeth Vaughan

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Michel Corboz Conducts Vivaldi

Michel Corboz

Classical - Released November 11, 2022 | Warner Classics

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Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat (Alpha Collection)

Le Concert Spirituel

Classical - Released November 1, 2015 | Alpha Classics

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Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels

Antonio Vivaldi

Classical - Released October 30, 2008 | Analekta

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Handel : Dixit Dominus - Vivaldi : Dixit Dominus, In furore iustissimae irae

David Bates

Classical - Released April 22, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Since 2012, David Bates has worked to cement himself as a regular artist in the Harmonia Mundi catalogue. He notably makes quality (now-essential) interpretations of Baroque era music such as François Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres (2016), Pergolèse’s Stabat alongside two cantatas by J.S. Bach (BMV 54 and 170, 2017), and some lesser-known works such as Handel’s Il pastor fido. Here, the same text, “Dixit Dominus” (Psalm 110), is put into music by two composers that were almost contemporaries, Vivaldi (RV 803, in which there is another, more famous interpretation, already put in music by Prêtre Roux with RV 608 for a contralto voice) and Handel (HMV 232, made known by Gardiner in the 1970s). These two totally different versions make for an evocative listening experience however share a similar language and musicality. We are met with some typical moments from the two composers: for Vivaldi, his Dominus a dextris tuis, whose strings in the ritornello remind one clearly of the numerous introductions to concertos and opera arias; for Handel, his very Italian-flavoured Juravit Dominus evokes some of his later choirs (Hercules, Semele). In this most lively interpretation from the Nuova Musica, David Bates follows in Gardiner’s footsteps as he favours curves over stark rhythmic changes. © Théodore Grantet/Qobuz