Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della beata vergine (2 CDs)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Peter Harvey, Nicholas Mulroy, Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist, Robert King, The King's Consort

2 CDs

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Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.

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+Magnificat a 6; Missa in ille tempore

Künstler:: Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Nicholas Mulroy, King's Consort Choir, King's Consort, Robert King
Label:: Hyperion
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 2005
Artikelnummer:: 3864188
UPC/EAN:: 0034571175317
Erscheinungstermin:: 23.6.2006

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Hyperion’s record of the month for May brings us the monumental Monteverdi Vespers—a perennial bastion of the choral repertory, and the fifth release in The King’s Consort’s acclaimed series: ‘The definitive representation of Monteverdi on disc’ (BBC Music Magazine). In 1610, disgruntled with his lot as choirmaster to the Duke of Mantua, Monteverdi set about compiling what was to become one of the most significant choral publications in history. At its heart lies the Vespers—a blistering array of virtuosic solo movements and magisterial choruses to texts from which can be assembled music suitable for any Solemn Vespers, whatever the forces available. Many movements offer abridged versions and a complete alternative Magnificat is provided. This performance is of the full work in all its opulent glory, with the addition of the simplified Magnificat and the Missa In illo tempore—a setting of the Mass without which no liturgical publication of the time could have been complete. And what a recording this turns out to be. As the cornerstone of The King’s Consort’s twenty-fifth anniversary concert series, the Vespers scored a knockout performance at The Sage Gateshead in February this year. Over the following weekend Robert King led the same jubilant forces in the creation of this recording, the fruit of some two-and-a-half decades of research and performance—the glorious result being a rendition cut free from transient artifice and embued with a degree of fully formed confidence that can only spring ‘from the heart’. 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: a project made possible by the generosity of all the many hundreds of people who donated to Hyperion’s appeal for recording funds in 2005. This new recording is available in multichannel DSD hybrid SACD and conventional CD formats.

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'Wonderful music; wonderful performances. Justice has been done to Monteverdi' (The Times)

'Solo and choral singing and the instrumental playing all attain the exceptional quality one has long come to expect with the conductor...unquestionably a major addition to the Vespers discography' (Fanfare, USA)

'I can only join the label in saying 'thank you' to the many contributors who sent in funds, and I urge listeners everywhere to help the investment pay off by purchasing this set without delay. It's gorgeous and you'll love it, even if you already own other versions of this extraordinary work' (ClassicsToday. com)