Vespro della Beata Vergine: Marienvesper

by Claudio Monteverdi

Vespro della Beata Vergine: Marienvesper cover art

Conducted by René Jacobs, this radiant live recording breathes profound vitality into Monteverdi’s monumental 1610 sacred masterpiece. Featuring meticulously reconstructed period instrumentation and stunning choral execution, the performance perfectly bridges the strict polyphony of the Renaissance with the expressive, dramatic emotionality of the early Baroque era. It is widely hailed as a definitive, deeply moving interpretation of the historic vespers.

Genres

  • Baroque Music
  • Christian Liturgical Music
  • Renaissance Music

Tracklist

  1. Deus, in adiutorium meum intende
  2. In odorem unguentorum tuorum currimus
  3. Dixit Dominus
  4. Nigra sum
  5. Iam hiems transiit
  6. Laudate pueri Dominum
  7. Pulchra es
  8. Beata Mater et intacta virgo
  9. Laetatus sum
  10. Duo Seraphim
  11. Regali ex progenie Maria exorta refulget
  12. Nisi Dominus
  13. Audi, coelum
  14. Nigra sum
  15. Lauda Jerusalem, Dominum
  16. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
  17. Ave maris stella
  18. Ave Maria, gratia plena
  19. Magnificat anima me Dominum
  20. Et exultavit
  21. Quia respexit
  22. Quia fecit mihi magna
  23. Et misericordia
  24. Fecit potentiam
  25. Deposuit potentes
  26. Esurientes implevit bonis
  27. Suscepit Israel
  28. Sicut locutus est
  29. Gloria Patri
  30. Sicut erat in principio