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This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st September 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Choral
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Monteverdi - Vespers
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Daniel Auchincloss & Nicholas Mulroy
The King’s Consort, Robert King
Despite four wonderful volumes of Monteverdi's sacred music from The King's Consort, nothing will prepare you for the ecstatic consequences of taking seriously at least one aspect of Monteverdi's... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
RecommendedDunedin Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Butt
[Butt’s] flexible approach to the vexed question of the proportional speeds between duple and triple sections produces some surprisingly languid effects…but a dance-like vitality elsewhere…using... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) & Selva morale e spirituale
Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott
The first recording to engage fully with the scholarly debates regarding the form, purpose and pitch of the work, this 1984 version is a comprehensive and radical attempt to reconstruct a festal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Best-kept Secrets
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Monteverdi: Vespers
Roberta Invernizzi, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Ghelardini (countertenor), Vincenzo di Donato, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Ferrarini (tenors), Pietro Spagnoli, Furio Zanasi (baritones), Antonio Abete, Daniele Carnovich (basses)
Concerto Italiano,...
Rinaldo Alessandrini has waited long before committing to disc his thoughts on Monteverdi's most famous sacred publication. On the issues that have divided modern performers he's unflappably... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Over 30 years later, Herreweghe’s radical rethinking yields shaded flexibility and kaleidoscopic dynamism...One never senses a dictating ego controlling proceedings; there is a spirit of collective... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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Boterf brings us a Vespers of unique beauty, in a version Claudio Monteverdi had printed by which until now has never been recorded…Boterf’s stripped-back Vespers offers a more sumptuous array... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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This exciting recording of the Monteverdi Vespers is probably the fastest ever. The double-choir effects in 'Laudate Jerusalem', for example, flicker back and forth like lightening. Even when... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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One of the earliest and best Vesper sets, certainly the prettiest-sounding. The quality of singers, the rising early music stars of their age, is unsurpassed. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine
Sophie Marin-Degor (soprano), Maryseult Wieczorek (mezzo), Artur Stefanowicz (countertenor), Paul Agnew, Joseph Cornwell (tenors), Thierry Félix, Clive Bayley (basses)
Les Arts Florissants Orchestra & Chorus, Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse, William Christie
This is in some ways an oddly old-fashioned approach to the 1610 Vespers. With a substantial choir and sometimes highly varying orchestration, William Christie creates a warm and glowing sound.... — More…
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