Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine / Suzuki, Et Al

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Release Date
March 1, 2001
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO
    • PERFORMER
      Suzuki, Nonoshita, Hidas, Hatano, Türk, Van Dyck, Taniguchis, Macleod, Ogasawaraes, Concerto Palatin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 01, 2001
    • UPC
      7318591071723
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-CD-1071-72
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    2. Gloria

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    3. Credo

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    4. Credo: Crucifixus

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    5. Credo: Et in Spiritum sanctum

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    6. Sanctus

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    7. Benedictus

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    8. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    9. Agnus Dei II a 7

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    10. Versiculus: Deus in adiutorium (Canto gregoriano) - Responsorium: Domine ad adiuvandum [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    11. Psalmus: Dixit Dominus [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    12. Concerto: Nigra sum [a 1]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    13. Psalmus: Laudate pueri [a 8]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    14. Concerto: Pulchra es [a 2]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    15. Psalmus: Laetatus sum [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    16. Concerto: Duo Seraphim [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    17. Psalmus: Nisi Dominus [a 10]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    18. Concerto: Audi Coelum [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    19. Psalmus: Lauda Jerusalem [a 7]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    20. Sonata a 8 sopra Sancta Maria ora pro nobis

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    21. Hymnus: Ave maris stella

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    22. Magnificat (I) a 7: Magnificat [a 7]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    23. Magnificat (I) a 7: Et exultavit [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    24. Magnificat (I) a 7: Quia respexit [a 1]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    25. Magnificat (I) a 7: Quia fecit [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    26. Magnificat (I) a 7: Et misericordia [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    27. Magnificat (I) a 7: Fecit potentiam [a 1]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    28. Magnificat (I) a 7: Deposuit [a 1]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    29. Magnificat (I) a 7: Esurientes [a 2]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    30. Magnificat (I) a 7: Suscepit Israel [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    31. Magnificat (I) a 7: Sicut locutus est [a 1]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    32. Magnificat (I) a 7: Gloria Patri [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    33. Magnificat (I) a 7: Sicut erat [a 7]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    34. Magnificat [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    35. Et exultavit [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    36. Quia respexit [a 1]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    37. Quia fecit [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    38. Et misericordia [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    39. Fecit potentiam [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    40. Desposuit [a 3]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    41. Esurientes [a 2]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    42. Suscepit Israel [a 2]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    43. Sicut locutus est [a 5]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    44. Gloria Patri [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

    45. Sicut erat [a 6]

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi


‘Our main purpose for this recording,’ writes Masaaki Suzuki, ‘was to perform all the music contained in the collection that Monteverdi published in 1610.’ So he begins with the Missa In illo tempore, a superb example of old-style, elaborate polyphony; moves through the Vespers themselves, following the original order of the pieces and interpolating nothing; then, after the lavish Magnificat a 7, he ends with the more modest Magnificat a 6, which Monteverdi appended as an alternative.

This straightforward approach seems almost radical given the current glut of more fanciful versions, in which conductors reshuffle the Vespers, pepper them with antiphons and works by other composers and variously ‘adapt’ them to fit specific liturgical occasions. Such diverse interpretations make the choice of a benchmark recording highly subjective. Gardiner (dramatic, on Archiv) and Parrott (intimate and liturgically correct, on Virgin Veritas) offer fine, contrasting views, and several other versions (Christie, Garrido, Junghänel, Pickett) are well worth exploring.

This new set is consistently engaging. Unlike his rivals, Suzuki uses a high pitch of A=465Hz (common in Monteverdi’s Italy), but follows current thinking in transposing certain pieces down a fourth (the Missa, the Magnificats, ‘Lauda Jerusalem’). Performances throughout are expressive, sharply focused, intensely committed. Though he dispenses with liturgical trappings, Suzuki, aided by a spacious ‘churchy’ acoustic, certainly brings out the ritualistic and devotional character of the music, from the ornate orchestral splendour of the ‘Sonata sopra Sancta Maria’ to the tender vocal passions of ‘Pulchra es’ and ‘Duo Seraphim’. Excellent.

-- Graham Lock, BBC Music Magazine