Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale Volume 1

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these are some of the most spirited and individual performances of this repertory available...the standard of solo singing is very good. The ad hoc instrumentalists provide sensitive, stylish... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Sep 2010
Catalogue No: COR16087
Label: Coro
Series: Monteverdi Selva Morale e Spirituale
Length: 66 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

December 2010

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Selva morale e spirituale

Work length1:06:40

$13.50

$18.90

The Sixteen

Beatus vir, Primo

Track length8:00

$1.50

$2.10

Gloria

Track length12:04

$2.00

$2.80

Confitebor, Terzo alla francese

Track length7:02

$1.50

$2.10

Voi ch'ascoltate

Track length4:56

$1.00

$1.40

Laudate pueri, Primo

Track length8:01

$1.50

$2.10

Salve Regina

Track length4:45

$1.00

$1.40

Chi vol che m'innamori

Track length7:27

$1.50

$2.10

Deus tuorum militum

Track length2:17

$1.00

$1.40

Laudate Dominum omnes gentes

Track length4:10

$1.00

$1.40

Dixit Dominus

Track length7:58

$1.50

$2.10

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Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early baroque European composers. He revolutionised the music of the theatre and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments and by his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spirituale of 1641 is his most significant and virtuosic collection of sacred music. Over the next few years we intend to record the complete publication with a variety of forces. His much performed Beatus vir is a mere appetiser for this delightful yet thrilling music.

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Christmas 2010

these are some of the most spirited and individual performances of this repertory available...the standard of solo singing is very good. The ad hoc instrumentalists provide sensitive, stylish support thoughout.

December 2010

the members of The Sixteen prove to be more insightfully dramatic and precise with their delivery of words than some acclaimed continental consorts...this first instalment shows Christophers and his musicians at their very finest, communicating an evangelising zeal for the music married to an obvious keeness [sic] to express words

January 2011

Among the strengths in these performances are the thrilling instrumental playing by the violinists, Walter Reiter and Simon Jones, whose ornamentation is both stylish and inventive. Also deserving the highest praise is the harp playing of Frances Kelly..[and] the singing of the three tenors, Joseph Cornwell, Mark Dobell and Julian Stocker, which is airy, agile and highly expressive.

28th October 2010

There's a nice immediacy to the choral sound here, without too much churchy resonance obscuring the clarity of the diction and articulation of the Sixteen's performances, one to a part up to a maximum of eight singers.

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Harry Christophers discusses the Selva morale e spirituale series

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