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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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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. 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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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Montserrat Figueras, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Livio Picotti, Paolo Costa, Guy de Mey, Gian Paolo Fagotto, Gerd Turk, Pietro Spagnoli, Roberto Abondanza, Daniele Carnovich
La Capella Reial, Coro del Centro Musica Antica di Padova, Jordi Savall
Typically, Savall and his vocal consort and instrumentalists achieve more achingly and lingeringly beautiful moments than anyone else — More…
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespers
Jill Gomez, Felicity Palmer, Robert Tear, Philip Langridge, John Shirley-Quirk
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's first version was made with some of the finest English singers of the day and the legendary Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
It may not be as polished, but its vitality stands up well... — More… -
Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Grace Davidson, Charlotte Mobbs (sopranos), Simon Berridge, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell (tenor) & Ben Davies, Eamonn Dougan (bass)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Christophers sees Monteverdi attempting here to 'speak through singing'...and this, he tells us, allows the conductor 'the most amazing licence' - of accentuation, speed and declamation. Hence... — More…
