Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro Di Natale / Christmas Vespers

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It is worth recording that it does not have much of an actual Christmassy feel – only two pieces have texts specific to the occasion – but there is no doubt that its choice of music brings rich... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2023 More…

Release Date: 28th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: 4862977
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 95 minutes

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Excerpt, Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Deus in adiutorium - Domine ad adiuvandum

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Gabrieli, G: Intonazione del I tono

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus II, SV 264

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Grandi: Motetti a due voci

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Alice Borciani (soprano), Matthias Lucht (alto)
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

O felix, o lucidissima nox

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Gabrieli, G: Intonazione del undecimo tono, C 249

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
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Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Psalm 110: Confitebor tibi, Domine III (alla francese), SV 267

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Usper: Compositioni armoniche, Op. 3

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Sonata a 8 con quattro soprani

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Gabrieli, G: Intonazione quinto tono alla quarta bassa

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
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Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Psalm 111: Beatus vir I, SV 268

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Grandi: Motetti a due voci

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William Shelton (alto), Carlos Mena (alto)
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

O intemerata

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Gabrieli, G: Intonazione Secondo Tono

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Psalm 112: Laudate pueri II, SV 271

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Monteverdi: Venite, siccientes

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Francesca Cassinari (soprano), Alice Borciani (soprano)
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Gabrieli, G: Intonation del ottavo tono

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Psalm 116: Laudate Dominum I, SV 270

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Gabrieli, G: Sonate e Canzoni

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Andrea Marcon
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Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Sonata XVIII a 14

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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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Alice Borciani (soprano), Francesca Cassinari (soprano), Carlos Mena (alto), Ivo Haun de Oliveira (tenor), Csongor Szántó (tenor), Guglielmo Buonsanti (bass (vocal))
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Hymnus: Christe redemptor omnium

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Valentini, Giovanni: Hodie Christus natus est

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Carlos Mena (alto)
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Gabrieli, G: Intonation del nono tono

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
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Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

Magnificat I, SV 281

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Gabrieli, G: Intonatione del decimo tono

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Giulio De Nardo (organ)
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Monteverdi: Cantate Domino

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La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel
Andrea Marcon
Recorded: 2021-08-26
Recording Venue: Museo civico Santa Caterina, Treviso

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On 29 December 1616 Claudio Monteverdi wrote to the poet Alessandro Striggio — who was also the secretary to the Duke of Mantua — to apologize for his late reply, which he attributed to “the hard work that had to be done on the Mass for Christmas Eve, for what with composing it and copying it out I had to give up the entire month of December, almost without a break”. By 1616 Monteverdi had been the maestro di cappella at St Mark’s for three years. Here the Christmas festivities placed a particularly heavy burden on his shoulders. Not only did he have to compose a new polyphonic Mass, he also had to write numerous other works for the Solemn Vespers on Christmas Eve at St. Mark’s as well as for Christmas Day itself at San Giorgio Maggiore, and for additional services associated with the Christmas liturgy. The musicians of the Doge’s cappella would then be joined by famous soloists who were in the city for the opening of the new opera season, while other singers and instrumentalists were similarly enlisted for these magnificent celebrations.

The Vespro veneziano that Andrea Marcon has assembled for this new recording is inspired by the resplendent sounds of the music that was performed at the great Christmas Vespers in St. Mark’s in the presence of the foremost dignitaries of La Serenissima and a large audience of aristocrats and visitors from across Europe. This reconstruction features works from various printed anthologies of works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries and presents the sort of Vespers that might have been heard in Venice over the Christmas period during the long incumbency of “il divino Claudio” as maestro di cappella at St Mark’s — he held the post from August 1613 until his death on 29 November 1643.

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January 2023

It is worth recording that it does not have much of an actual Christmassy feel – only two pieces have texts specific to the occasion – but there is no doubt that its choice of music brings rich gifts.

16th December 2022

the speculative collection of pieces gathered by Andrea Marcon and his group La Cetra proves utterly compelling and uplifting. Part of the album’s joy lies in the recording’s resonant church acoustic and the period tang of the on-site organ — key agents in fusing together singers and instrumentalists in contrapuntal glory.

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro Di Natale / Christmas Vespers

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