Vespro della Beata Vergine: Marienvesper
by Claudio Monteverdi
- Type: Album
- Released: 1996
- Label: Harmonia Mundi
- Country: Italy
- Length: 1:33:34
- Community rating: 4.26/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Conducted by Ren茅 Jacobs, this radiant live recording breathes profound vitality into Monteverdi鈥檚 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
Descriptors: christian, choral, polyphonic, acoustic, complex
Tracklist
- Deus, in adiutorium meum intende (2:09)
- In odorem unguentorum tuorum currimus (0:25)
- Dixit Dominus (8:02)
- Nigra sum (3:39)
- Iam hiems transiit (0:31)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (6:09)
- Pulchra es (3:42)
- Beata Mater et intacta virgo (0:33)
- Laetatus sum (7:04)
- Duo Seraphim (6:44)
- Regali ex progenie Maria exorta refulget (0:48)
- Nisi Dominus (4:51)
- Audi, coelum (8:40)
- Nigra sum (0:28)
- Lauda Jerusalem, Dominum (4:43)
- Sonata sopra Sancta Maria (7:18)
- Ave maris stella (7:39)
- Ave Maria, gratia plena (0:27)
- Magnificat anima me Dominum (0:44)
- Et exultavit (1:26)
- Quia respexit (1:52)
- Quia fecit mihi magna (1:06)
- Et misericordia (2:07)
- Fecit potentiam (1:00)
- Deposuit potentes (2:16)
- Esurientes implevit bonis (1:36)
- Suscepit Israel (1:20)
- Sicut locutus est (1:06)
- Gloria Patri (2:43)
- Sicut erat in principio (2:26)
Credits
- Claudio Monteverdi - primary artist, composed by
- Margaret Marshall - primary artist, soprano vocals
- Felicity Palmer - primary artist, mezzo-soprano vocals
- Philip Langridge - primary artist, tenor vocals
- Kurt Equiluz - primary artist, tenor vocals
- Thomas Hampson - primary artist, baritone vocals
- Artur Korn - primary artist, bass vocals
- Arnold Schoenberg Chor - primary artist, chorus