Monteverdi: Vespers 1610
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespers 1610
Dunedin Consort; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Butt
[ Linn / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 September 2017
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The sonic grandeur of Monteverdi's spectacular masterpiece is expertly realized in this recording by John Butt and Dunedin Consort. Together with the virtuoso players of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts and a star-studded line up, including Peter Harvey, Joanne Lunn and Nicholas Mulroy, Dunedin Consort delivers the perfect recording to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth. The raison d'être for this recording was reinforced following a performance of the Vespers at the 2016 Lammermuir Festival which wowed the critics: The Herald called it 'superbly stylish…an exhilarating performance' whilst The Scotsman stated 'it is hard to imagine a more exquisite, deeply felt performance'. In direct contrast to the more typically lavish stagings John Butt's preference for single part performance brings a welcome sense of intimacy to Monteverdi's most famous work. In eschewing the pomp and circumstance John Butt's approach delivers a fresh, modern performance that allows the individuality of the soloists to shine.
"The Dunedin Consort's 10 voices combine to make a magnificent choral sound in Lauda Jerusalem, yet have the flexibility for the melismatic writing of their solos in Pulchra es and Duo Seraphim." Sunday Times
"[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 just ten singers creates a great transparency of texture" Five Stars BBC Music
"Butt's innate ability to shape a movement is regularly on show…The contours of the music are further delineated by another of Butt's performance decisions, which is to find tempo relationships which lead to triple-time sections being about half the speed we have become used to hearing…With so many Vespers recordings out there, this one joins the ranks of those with both a character of its own and something to say." Gramophone
"If you want some Monteverdi in your life, you can't do better than this new recording of his Vespers from the Edinburgh-based choir the Dunedin Consort, under their music director John Butt, a man of many talents: a first-class musicologist, a communicator with a gift for explaining complex points, and an excellent conductor." Daily Mail
Tracks:
Disc 1
1. Deus in adiutorium
2. PSALM Dixit Dominus
3. CONCERTO Nigra sum
4. PSALM Laudate pueri Dominum
5. CONCERTO Pulchra es
6. PSALM Laetatus sum
7. CONCERTO Duo Seraphim
8. PSALM Nisi Dominus
9. CONCERTO Audi coelum
Disc 2
1. PSALM Lauda Jerusalem
2. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
3. HYMN Ave maris stella
4. Magnificat
5. Et exultavit spiritus meus
6. Quia respexit humilitatem
7. Quia fecit mihi magna
8. Et misericordia eius
9. Fecit potentiam in brachio suo
10. Deposuit potentes de sede
11. Esurientes implevit bonis
12. Suscepit Israel puerum suum
13. Sicut locutus est
14. Gloria Patri
15. Sicut erat in principio
