I would like to explain briefly some of the choices that I made in preparing for this: This site uses cookies. Moreover, Monteverdi forgoes the variety of scoring that composers, himself included, usually used to lighten the texture of five- and six-part pieces; instead, much of the Mass is written in six real parts seven in the final Agnus Dei. The two settings are also linked in that both include detailed indications of the organ stops to be used. These do affect the Psalm and the context in which they are heard. Die Vesper, ein Abendgottesdienst, wurde an Festtagen zweimal gefeiert: Subsequent verses are set alternately, first to a free form of chanting with elaborate endings based on the sort of exercises used by professional singers, and secondly for solo voices over the plainsong in the organ line and bass voice, amongst which are interspersed elegant string ritornellos. 
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On the issues that have divided modern performers he's unflappably Following a successful tour in the late spring ofthere was a lot of excitement about this project and many mp were hoping to find a way of archiving this experience. View full details Read reviews Listen to samples Watch videos.
By re-using material that had heralded a royal occasion inMonteverdi both paid a compliment to his patrons, the Gonzagas, and implied that his Vespers setting was worthy of performance in the greatest churches and on the greatest occasions.
The Psalms were followed by a short Bible reading, a Hymn, a further versicle and response, the Magnificat the canticle of the Virgin Mary, which was sung at all celebrations of Vespersand concluding prayers. A dazzling array of soloists join King—his choir and orchestra on top form—in presenting this new recording of a true masterpiece to the world: The setting possesses a strong sense of forward movement, full of rhythmic life and syncopation, the two choirs urging each other on, anchored by the cantus firmus, to the grandest of Glorias.
InMonteverdi in fact won the post of maestro di cappella at San Marco in Venice, and we can be reasonably certain that this remarkable sacred work played a role in his engagement.
We were all fortunate enough that the OAE managed to find the resources to make this possible, and for that I am most grateful. There can be few more obvious proponents of that ability in music than Claudio Monteverdi, and the sounds he created in his Vespers alone would comfortably prove it. Monteverdis Psalmvertonungen liegt eine simple Technik zugrunde: In the choral bookends to the same movement, Monteverdi places a purposeful, leading cadence at the end of each line; here he has freed the plainsong theme from its ancient mode and given it life with modern-style harmonies.
It is a work of such beauty and depth that such a wide variety of interpretations can be made of it. This Monteverdi is truly mind-blowing. Don't show me this message again. Rinaldo Alessandrini has waited long before committing to disc his thoughts on Monteverdi's most famous sacred publication.
Monteverdi Vespers 1610
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Monteverdi responds to their emotional content with memorable musical phrases tailored to the detail of the words. Lauda Ierusalem opens dramatically, the Psalm tone sounded by the tenor and repeated by the other six voices; it then proceeds in dialogue, with exchanges between two choral trios circling around the tenor, who presents the psalm tone verse by verse.
It is likely, then, that Monteverdi intended his book to be admired and read as a whole, and this provides us with an historical justification for recording the music of the publication in its vesperd and, indeed, for performing the Vespers music as a concert work. Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
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This site uses cookies. Es gibt jedoch auch Stellen, bei denen der Kompositionsstil deutlich mit dem der vorgeblich moderneren Vespermusik verwandt ist. Subsequent verses are set alternately, first to a free form of chanting with elaborate endings based on the vespsrs of exercises used by professional singers, and secondly for solo voices over the plainsong in the organ line and bass voice, amongst which are interspersed elegant string ritornellos. Sicut erat in principio https: Monteverdi Sacred Music Length: The Vespers was published in a volume that contained other music by Monteverdi too—most significantly a Mass setting based on material by his predecessor Nicolas Gombert.
One for the astonishing speed of the turnaround between recording and release—just a couple of months. The shock of the old: By doing this, you sometimes end up with lower voices singing higher in their register, which, to my ears, is more exciting, mo3 as Monteverdi often sets the text in that way. View full details Listen to samples.
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Messiah December 6 5: Deus in adjutorium IV. Some movements can be sung by the chorus or played by solo instruments. Pulchra es sets another text from the Song of Songs, this time as a duet and, like Nigra sum, in a mixture of lyrical and declamatory styles virtually identical to those used for contemporary secular love-songs.
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