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Vespers of 1610
Claudio Monteverdi

The Rodolfus Choir / Southern Sinfonia

Vespers of 1610

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212010921
Catnr: SIGCD 109
Release date: 01 November 2007
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212010921
Catalogue number
SIGCD 109
Release date
01 November 2007
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About the album

Music of the seventeenth century was little known to the concertgoing or record-buying public, up until fifty years or so ago when Monteverdi’s Vespers were performed under the inspiration of figures such as Michael Tippett as part of a modern revival of early music. Subsequently, it has been one of the most celebrated works both with choral societies and early music specialists.

Here, the Rodolfus Choir offer their interpretation of one of the most magnificent works of the seventeenth century. Following their highly successful release with Signum earlier this year, Choral Arrangements by Clytus Gottwald, the Rodolfus Choir perform earlymusic as sensitively and musically as they perform music of the twentieth-century.

Moderne herleving van een grandioos werk uit de 17e eeuw
Muziek uit de 17e eeuw was weinig bekend bij het publiek tot in de jaren 50 van de vorige eeuw, toen Monteverdi’s Vespers uitgevoerd werd. Deze uitvoering was geïnspireerd door onder anderen de Britse componist Michael Tipett, als onderdeel van een moderne herleving van vroegere muziek. Vervolgens is het één van de meest gevierde werken geworden bij zowel koorgemeenschappen als oude muziek specialisten.

Op dit album geeft het Rodolfus Koor een interpretatie van één van de meest grandioze werken van de 17e eeuw. Als gevolg van hun zeer succesvolle album uit 2007, Choral Arrangements by Clytus Gottwald, voert het Rodolfus Koor oude muziek net zo gevoelig en muzikaal uit als dat ze muziek uit de 20e eeuw uitvoeren.

Artist(s)

The Rodolfus Choir

The Rodolfus Choir is made up of singers aged from 16 to 25 who have been chosen from past and present members of the Eton Choral Courses for prospective choral scholars. Many members of the choir are choral scholars, some are at music college, and most hope to make a career in music. Since its foundation by Ralph Allwood in 1984, the choir has appeared throughout the United Kingdom at venues great and small, including St John’s, Smith Square and some of the country’s most glorious cathedrals. In 2009 the choir performed a cappella repertoire from Tallis to Gottwald in Bath, Eton, and Richmond, and performed Bach’s B Minor Mass to sell out audiences in London’s Cadogan Hall, and in...
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The Rodolfus Choir is made up of singers aged from 16 to 25 who have been chosen from past and present members of the Eton Choral Courses for prospective choral scholars. Many members of the choir are choral scholars, some are at music college, and most hope to make a career in music. Since its foundation by Ralph Allwood in 1984, the choir has appeared throughout the United Kingdom at venues great and small, including St John’s, Smith Square and some of the country’s most glorious cathedrals. In 2009 the choir performed a cappella repertoire from Tallis to Gottwald in Bath, Eton, and Richmond, and performed Bach’s B Minor Mass to sell out audiences in London’s Cadogan Hall, and in Tewkesbury Abbey as part of the summer’s Three Choirs festival. The choir has also toured extensively in Europe, performing to an audience of thousands at the International night of the Choirs Festival in Belgium in 2008. The Rodolfus Choir and Ralph Allwood are well known for imaginative programming, and for presenting new music. The Rodolfus Choir’s recent CD recordings include music as diverse as Monteverdi, Grier, Tallis, the German Romantics and Herbert Howells. The choir is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3’s choral evensong, and has featured on Classic FM, as well as appearing on BBC TV’s ‘Songs of Praise’ and in the documentary ‘Alex: a passion for life’ which followed preparations for the choir’s performance at Cadogan Hall earlier this year and aired on Channel 4 in October 2009 with a further hour of concert highlights featured on Morefour.

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Composer(s)

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer and conductor, whose work marked the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Moreover, he composed the earliest operas that are still regularly performed today. Monteverdi worked as maestro di capella at the court of the duke of Mantua and at the San Marco in Venice. He was a famous musician during his lifetime, but his compositions also provoked opposition. The conservative theorist Giovanni Maria Artusi criticized the technical flaws in some of Monteverdis madrigals. The composer defended himself by making a distinction between two styles of composition, the prima prattica, in which the harmony is dominant, and the seconda prattica , in which the music is subordinate to the text. Monteverdi championed the seconda prattica, and eventually broke with traditional...
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Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer and conductor, whose work marked the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Moreover, he composed the earliest operas that are still regularly performed today.
Monteverdi worked as maestro di capella at the court of the duke of Mantua and at the San Marco in Venice. He was a famous musician during his lifetime, but his compositions also provoked opposition. The conservative theorist Giovanni Maria Artusi criticized the technical flaws in some of Monteverdis madrigals. The composer defended himself by making a distinction between two styles of composition, the prima prattica, in which the harmony is dominant, and the seconda prattica , in which the music is subordinate to the text. Monteverdi championed the seconda prattica, and eventually broke with traditional Renaissance polyphony and began to employ the basso continuo and recitative to do better justice to the text.
Monteverdi wrote amongst others eight books of madrigals, two collections of liturgical music and various operas. The opera L'incoronazione di Poppea is considered a culminating point of Monteverdi's work. It contains tragic, romantic, and comic scenes and warmer melodies than previously heard.

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Disc #1
01.
Dominus ad adiuvandum
02:05
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
02.
Dixit Dominus
06:54
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
03.
Nigra sum
03:37
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
04.
Laudate pueri
06:39
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
05.
Pulchra es
04:30
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
06.
Laetatus sum
07:21
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
07.
Duo seraphim
06:20
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
08.
Nisi Dominus
04:30
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
09.
Audi coelum
09:21
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble

Disc #2
01.
Lauda Jerusalem
03:52
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
02.
Sonata
06:37
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
03.
Ave maris stella
09:13
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
04.
Magnificat
00:36
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
05.
Et exultavit
01:16
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
06.
Quia respexit
01:37
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
07.
Quia fecit
01:17
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
08.
Et misericordia
02:34
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
09.
Fecit potentiam
01:00
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
10.
Deposuit
02:24
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
11.
Esurientes
01:24
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
12.
Suscepit
01:20
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
13.
Sicut locutus
01:00
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
14.
Gloria Patri
02:38
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
15.
Sicut erat
01:56
(Claudio Monteverdi) Southern Sinfonia, Rodolfus Choir, The English Cornet & Sackbut Ensemble
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