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This release in Robert King's complete cycle of Vivaldi's church music mainly features works unconnected with the Ospedale della Pietà, including a motet written in Rome and the famous Stabat... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDA66799
Label: Hyperion
Series: Vivaldi Sacred Music
Length: 78 minutes

Vivaldi: In turbato mare irato, RV627

Work length15:33

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Susan Gritton (soprano)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. In turbato mare irato

Track length6:32

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II. Splende serena, o lux amata

Track length0:43

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III. Resplende, bella

Track length5:49

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IV. Alleluia

Track length2:29

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Vivaldi: Non in pratis aut in hortis RV641

Work length12:19

$4.50

$5.60

Jean Rigby (contralto)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. Non in pratis aut in hortis

Track length0:54

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II. Ibi spinis confixus

Track length1:41

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III. Pro me caput spinas habet

Track length8:49

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IV. Quaesone facias, Domine

Track length0:55

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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV621

Work length18:45

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Robin Blaze (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. Stabat mater dolorosa

Track length2:47

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II. Cuius animam gementem

Track length1:48

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III. O quam tristis et afflicta

Track length1:56

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IV. Quis est homo, qui non fleret

Track length2:58

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V. Quis non posset contristari

Track length1:50

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VI. Pro peccatis suae gentis

Track length2:00

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VII. Eia Mater, fons amoris

Track length2:47

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VIII. Fac ut ardeat cor meum

Track length1:18

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IX. Amen

Track length1:21

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Vivaldi: O qui coeli terraeque serenitas, RV631

Work length13:26

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Susan Gritton (soprano)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. O qui caeli terraeque serenitas

Track length5:12

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II. Fac ut sordescat tellus

Track length0:32

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III. Rosa quae moritur

Track length5:51

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IV. Alleluia

Track length1:51

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Vivaldi: Deus tuorum militum RV612

Work length4:36

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Jean Rigby (contralto), Charles Daniels (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Vivaldi: Confitebor tibi, Domine RV596

Work length13:23

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Charles Daniels (tenor), Jean Rigby (contralto), Neal Davies (bass)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. Confitebor tibi, Domine

Track length2:42

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II. Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum

Track length3:29

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III. Sanctum et terribile nomen eius

Track length2:42

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IV. Intellectus bonus omnibus

Track length1:58

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V. Gloria Patri, et Filio

Track length1:19

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VI. Et in saecula saeculorum

Track length1:13

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The fifth volume in Robert King's acclaimed series opens with Susan Gritton singing the highly virtuosic In turbato mare, the metaphorical ship of the soul truly having a rough time at sea. This flamboyance leads to the more contemplative Non in pratis, the introduction to a Miserere setting, now lost. The famous Stabat mater then becomes the ideal vehicle to reveal the vocal sweetness of young countertenor Robin Blaze. Three further motets round off the programme: O qui coelis includes the extraordinary aria 'Rosa qui moritur' ('The rose which dies'), plaintively sung by Susan Gritton; Deus tuorum is a simple strophic setting of this famous Hymn, but one which is strangely captivating; and the trio Confitebor tibi, Domine ranks among Vivaldi's supreme achievements in the genre. All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music: King has given us the ultimate Vivaldi anthology, abundant in energy, rich with emotion, animation, and color, and enshrined in Hyperion's fabled, warm, and incomparable sound (Fanfare, USA).

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2010

This release in Robert King's complete cycle of Vivaldi's church music mainly features works unconnected with the Ospedale della Pietà, including a motet written in Rome and the famous Stabat mater composed for a church in Brescia. All are for solo voice or voices and orchestra, and for the most part they all carry the typical Vivaldi trademarks: boisterous energy alongside a tender if angular lyricism; a vivid and excitable responsiveness to verbal imagery; and what the insert-notes describe as 'a shocking radicalism: a willingness to strip music down to its core and reconstitute it from these simplest elements'. The best works on this disc are the first three. In turbato mare is a rip-roaring 'simile' motet which makes use of the old operatic device of comparing a troubled soul to a stormtossed ship finding peace in port. The noble Nonin pratis aut in hortis is an introduzione, a short motet designed to precede a performance of a lost Miserere; since it ends on a half-close, it's followed here (with musical if not liturgical logic) by the Stabat mater. All are excellently sung; few recordings exist of the first two, but it's hard to imagine the ebulliently virtuosic Susan Gritton and the movingly firm-voiced Jean Rigby being significantly bettered. By contrast, the Stabat mater is well-trodden territory, but the warmly mellifluous Robin Blaze easily matches his rivals on disc. The King's Consort is a little raw in the string department, but in general it shows bright and lively form and is well served by an acoustic perfectly suited to the occasion. Under King's direction, too, they capture splendidly the spirit of this uncomplicated but atmospheric music.

October 2007

Robin Blaze sings with passion and raw honesty, and delivers plenty of sweetly contoured coloratura. The King's Consort boldly play with resonance and passion.

Vivaldi - Sacred Music 5

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