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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

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This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection.

BBC Music Magazine, November 20234 out of 5 stars

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

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Awards:

This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection.

BBC Music Magazine, November 20234 out of 5 stars

More reviews

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After ‘Stravaganza d’amore’, their superb album of late sixteenth-century Florentine music, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion return to Italy, this time to Mantua.

Here they offer us their reading of one of the peaks of sacred music from this period: Monteverdi’s Vespers.

Revealing like no other interpreters the poignant interiority of these pieces, they bring out to the full their inherent sense of theatre. An overwhelming experience.

  • Release date: 1st Sep 2023
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Catalogue number: HMM90271011
  • Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Work length57:09
Invitatorium. Versiculum et responsorium "Deus in adjutorium"
Track length2:21
Psalmus "Dixit dominus"
Track length8:05
Concerto "Nigra sum"
Track length4:00
Psalmus "Laudate Pueri"
Track length6:27
Concerto "Pulchra es"
Track length3:58
Psalmus "Laetatus sum"
Track length7:02
Concerto "Duo Seraphim"
Track length6:14
Psalmus "Nisi Dominus"
Track length5:28
Concerto "Audi, cœlum"
Track length9:23
Psalmus "Lauda Jerusalem"
Track length4:11
Monteverdi: Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, SV 328
Work length4:38
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Work length40:47
Sonata a 8 sopra Sancta Maria
Track length6:28
Hymnus "Ave maris stella"
Track length9:28
Magnificat anima mea dominum
Track length0:53
Et exultavit
Track length1:13
Quia respexit
Track length2:18
Quia fecit
Track length1:14
Et misericordia
Track length3:10
Fecit potentiam
Track length0:51
Deposuit
Track length2:30
Esurientes
Track length1:39
Suscepit Israel
Track length1:28
Sicut locutus est
Track length1:05
Gloria Patri
Track length2:36
Sicut erat
Track length2:22
Conclusio (versiculum et responsorium) "Domine, exaudi orationem meam"
Track length3:32

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Awards and reviews

November 2023

This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection.
4 out of 5 stars

1st September 2023

This latest recording from Pygmalion favours a middle ground, light in gait, soft-edged in tone, stopping short of the extremes of grandeur of utterance or parsimony of expression...the solo singers here are top-drawer and the instrumental playing is imaginative. Pygmalion’s recording has strong merits of its own.

1st September 2023

Their new Vespers is impeccably authentic from top to bottom, and yet at the same time it’s big, operatic and vigorous. Don’t let the blockbuster opening alarm you; this is not a uniformly crash-bang-wallop account. Far from it. The contrast between the first movement and the first of the psalm-settings, Dixit Dominus, is enormous..This could very well be the performance of the Vespers to have.
David Smith

The New York Times 28th September 2023

There is a sense of religious devotion to be heard here, as of course there should be, but what is so powerful is the expressive urgency that Pichon, his soloists and his Pygmalion ensemble so fervently bring to the music. If period performance still aims, as it always has, to restore the shock of the old for the ears of today, then this is period performance at close to its very best.
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