Monteverdi: The Other Vespers (2017)
performed by
Bjarte Eike (violin), Catherine Pierron (organ), English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, I Fagiolini, I Fagiolini, Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), Matthew Long (tenor), Robert Hollingworth (organ), The 24, The 24 (choir, chorus), Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
composed by
Claudio Monteverdi, Dario Castello, Francesco Usper, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Gregorian Chant, Ignazio Donati, Lodovico Viadana
Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 is regarded as his greatest achievement in sacred choral music and a monument of the early Baroque era. Yet several of his smaller psalm settings could have been fashioned into a comparable large-scale work, perhaps for use on non-Marian feast days, following the practices of maestri di cappella and choirs in Venice at the time. Monteverdi: The Other Vespers, a 2017 album on Decca, is a combination of psalms from Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale of 1647 with ...
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Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 is regarded as his greatest achievement in sacred choral music and a monument of the early Baroque era. Yet several of his smaller psalm settings could have been fashioned into a comparable large-scale work, perhaps for use on non-Marian feast days, following the practices of maestri di cappella and choirs in Venice at the time. Monteverdi: The Other Vespers, a 2017 album on Decca, is a combination of psalms from Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale of 1647 with works by his near contemporaries, thus forming a hybrid Vespers. Using seven motets by Monteverdi, which are interspersed with Gregorian chants and compositions by Lodovico Viadana, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (his Ave Verum Corpus was later embellished by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli), Ignazio Donati, Dario Castello, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Francesco Usper, the assembled artists demonstrate the practicalities of providing appropriate music for Vespers, as...
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- Deus, in adiutorium meum, for chorus
- Elisabeth Zachariae, for the vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Dixit Dominus II, motet for 8 voices, 2 violins & 4 violas/trombones (from Selva morale et spirituale), SV 264
- Ave verum corpus, for 5 voices (doubtful)
- Innuebant Patri, for the vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Confitebor tibi, Domine III (Terzo alla francese), motet for 5 voices/or 1 voice & 4 strings (from Salve morale e spirituale), SV 267
- Dulcis amor Iesu, motet for 5 voices
- Joannes vocabitur, vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Beatus Vir (I), motet for 6 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas/trombones and continuo (from Seva morale e spirituale), SV 268
- Joannes vocabitur, vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Inter natos, for the vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Laudate, pueri, Dominum (I), motet for 5 voices & 2 violins (from Selva morale e spirituale), SV 270
- Sonata for 2 instruments & continuo No. 8 in D minor (Sonata Concertate II/8)
- Tu puer propheta, vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius, motet for solo voice (from Selva morale e spirituale), SV 287
- Toccata for keyboard (Chigi MS Q IV 25; CEKM 30/1, No. 8)
- Audite insulae, for the vespers of St. John the Baptist
- Ut queant laxis resonare fibris, motet for 2 sopranos & 2 violins (from Selva morale e spirituale), SV 279a
- Work(s): Versicle & Response: Iste puer magnus coram Domino; Magnificat Antiphon: Puer qui natus est nobis,
- Magnificat for 14 voices, C. 79
- Sonata ą 8
- Dominus vobiscum, collect
- Salve O Regina, O Mater, motet for tenor, SV 326
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