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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610/Venetian Vespers | 
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| Creators: Claudio Monteverdi, Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 36200
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724356166226
EAN: 0724356166226
ASIN: B000031WJB
Release Date: April 11, 2000
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Versiculus, Canto Gregoriano: Deus In Adiutorium | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Responsorium: Domine Ad Adiuvandum Me Festina | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona, Canto Gregoriano | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Psalmus I: Psalmus 109: Dixit Dominus | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Con: Nigra Sum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona II, Canto Gregoriano: Maria Virgo Assumpta Est | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Psalmus II: Psalmus 112: Laudate Pueri | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Con: Pulchra Es | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona III, Canto Gregoriano: In Odorem Unguentorum Tuorum... | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Psalmus III: Psalmus 121: Laetatus Sum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Son | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona IV, Canto Gregoriano: Benedicta Filia Tua Domino | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Psalmus IV: Psalmus 126: Nisi Dominus | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Con: Audi Coelum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona V, Canto Gregoriano: Pulchra Es Et Decora, Filia... | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Psalmus IV:: Psalmus V: Psalmus 147: Lauda Jerusalem Dominum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Son | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Capitulum, Canto Gregoriano: In Omnibus Requiem Quaesivi | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Hymnus: Ave Maris Stella | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Versus Et Responsorium | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona VI, Canto Gregoriano: Hodie Maria Virgo Caelos Ascendit | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Son Sopra Sancta Maria |
Disc 2
| • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Magnificat | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Oratio, Canto Gregoriano: Dominus Vobiscum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Versus, Canto Gregoriano: Dominus Vobiscum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Con: Duo Seraphim | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Antiphona Beatae Mariae Virginis: Salve Regina | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Versus Et Responsorium, Canto Gregoriano: Ora Pro Nobis | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Oratio, Canto Gregoriano: Domine Vobiscum | | • | Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610: Conclusio, Canto Gregoriano: Divinum Auxilium Maneat Semper... | | • | Selva Morale E Spirituale 1641: Psalmus 109: Dixit Dominus | | • | Selva Morale E Spirituale 1641: Psalmus 110: Confitebor Tibi Domine | | • | Selva Morale E Spirituale 1641: Psalmus 111: Beatus Vir | | • | Selva Morale E Spirituale 1641: Psalmus 112: Laudate Pueri | | • | Selva Morale E Spirituale 1641: Psalmus 116: Laudate Dominum | | • | Selva Morale E Spirituale 1641: Salve Regina |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Adoration of the Divine December 6, 2008
Whatever their religious inclination, music lovers must concede that liturgical music forms the backbone of most Western classical music from Mozart to Bach to Wagner.
Monteverdi's Vespers is perhaps the pinnacle of this expression, with elements of folk, Gregorian chant, choral refrains and churchy chordal progressions. The Taverner Consort, Choir & Players are consummate professionals, with nothing showy or ostentatious to distract from the simple glory of the music itself. The 1984 recording here is ideal, with depth and a wide sound field, perfectly balanced between voices and instruments.
In short, this is the one reliable holiday recording I reach for every year to wash my ears of the oodles of abysmal dreck which infects the public airwaves.
Let's Compare and Share! September 24, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 is a monument that straddles the transition from the musical values of the late renaissance and the early baroque like the Colossus of Rhodes, incorporating hugely different elements, from antiphonal chant to prima prattica tenor-structured polyphony to secunda prattica accompanied recitativo and operatic aria, yet achieving the kind of unity represented by holding its listeners spellbound. It is, like the Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of musical history. It's also one of the most frequently performed works of sacred music in the world, ranking only behind Handel's Messiah and bach's B-minor Mass. Accordingly, there have been dozens of recordings of it, and many of them have been quite fine. To 'carry off' the Vespers, one needs above all two virtuosic cornetto-players, three tenor singers of great vocal agility whose voices match closely, and an acoustic that flatters a well-disciplined chorus capable of the restraint needed for polychoral polyphony. Yes yes, everything else needs to be nearly perfect also. Thus there can never be an absolutely ultimate recording of the Vespers; sections of one will always be better than sections of another.
This performance by conductor Andrew Parrott has long been taken as the standard of overall excellence. It is still the best-selling of all recordings of the Vespers, by a wide margin. And it's very good! I've listened to it with pleasure on three continents. But I'm interested in comparing it with other recordings - most of them more recent. You will soon see that almost every major conductor feels a need to perform the Vespers his way:
Nicholas Harnoncourt, with Concentus Musicus Wien
John Eliot Gardiner, with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
Konrad Junghaenel, with Cantus Coelln
Jordi Savall, with La Capella Reial
Philippe Herreweghe, with La Chapelle Royale
Rene Jacobs, with Concerto Vocale
Rinaldo Alessandrini, with Concerto Italiano
Stephen Stubbs, with Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino
Maasaki Suzuki, with Bach Collegium Japan
Frieder Bernius, with Musica Fiata
There are others, but these are the ones I'm familiar with. All of them are excellent in one way or another, IMHO. What I'd like to do is to invite readers who are thrilled or displeased with any performance of the Vespers - those listed or others - to comment on this review, to say specifically what you admire or dislike about the performances. The result will be, I hope, a kind of round-robin evaluation of the current state of performance and recording. Please don't get off-topic, and please avoid denunciations.
great price for Monteverdi December 31, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent CD. If you like Monteverdi, and don't have these works in your collection, then this is the CD to get. The Taverner Consort do a very fine job with the material, and Amazon's price is unbeatable.
Just beautiful March 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD captures both the gutsy energy and the ethereal beauty of Monteverdi's sacred choral music. I have neither performed nor even listened to his music for a long time, and this CD re-awakened me to its richness and compelling quality. There is a reason why we consider Monteverdi a "great" composer, and this CD shows it.
wonderful September 28, 2005
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
The singing and playing on this recording are truly delightful. The overall concept of the work is good. I love this recording.
But, like too many recordings of the vespers, it includes gregorian chant antiphons sung between the movements. Now either Monteverdi wrote this piece as a "piece" to be performed, in which case I believe the solo movements were meant to take the place of the traditional chant, or it is a collection of wonderful psalm settings and other sacred movements, in which case what is the point of adding music not written by Monteverdi? The same argument goes for the instrumental sonatas thrown in here. My personal belief is that Monteverdi, the first great opera composer, wrote these psalm settings over a period of time, and then put them together with the other movements to make a unified whole for publication. The other recording I own of this work, Gardiner's first recording of it, has a much nicer flow because there is no chant.
I must say that I love the clarity this version gives with one voice on a line, and I play both cd's often.
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