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    Claudio Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine - René Jacobs & Concerto Vocale

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    Claudio Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine - René Jacobs & Concerto Vocale

    Claudio Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine - René Jacobs & Concerto Vocale
    Classical, Sacred, Vocal | APE (Single Tracks) dBPoweramp | 2CD/429MB | RS.com

    Rene Jacobs presents here what is in many ways an old-fashioned view of the 1610 Vespers. Everything is performed at the same pitch, in fact A=440; he follows the sequence of movements in the original prints except in exchanging the “Ave maris stella” and the “Sancta Maria”; he has a substantial chorus to contrast with his soloists, sometimes changing over between phrases; his orchestra is larger than most; and the only added music is plainsong antiphons performed both before and after each psalm. Some of those decisions are defensible, but it does mean that the main competition for his new recording is in versions over 20 years old – Jurgens and Gardiner.
    Jacobs’s novelty is in thinking that when Monteverdi writes for two equal voices with the same clef and matching music it sounds better with singers who sound utterly different from one another. Since several of the performers here are unknown to me, I would prefer not to specify exactly what happens (they are not individually credited in the notes, though the alto Andreas Scholl seems to sing a lot of the soprano lines, and many of the tenor lines sound distinctly baritone, presumably Victor Torres), but those listening to “Pulchra es”, “Duo seraphim” or “Audi coelum” will be able to hear and judge for themselves. One should encourage original and well-considered artistic decisions; but this one I find rather distracting.

    The acoustic ambience (again not specified) is nice and rich but suffers from a nasty echo, so notes occasionally jump back at you and a fair amount of the best detail is lost. Even so, it seems that Jacobs sometimes takes tempos that put the faster notes way beyond even the skilled Netherlands Chamber Choir (particularly in “Laetatus sum” and “Nisi Dominus”). The instrumentalists are excellent, with a thick and warm continuo group as well as perhaps the most secure cornetto players I have heard (though it is odd that they embellish like mad while the violins keep doggedly to the written notes).

    Jacobs approaches the work with courage, a wide range of tempos and a vivid imagination – features that characterize so much of his finest musicianship. Many sections positively glow. But it remains hard to see how this challenges the grand old recordings of the years around 1970.

    David Fallows, Gramophone 12/1996

    Album Information
    Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
    Conductor: René Jacobs
    Performer: Nederlands Kamerkoor, Concerto Vocale, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Barbara Borden,
    Andreas Scholl, John Bowen, Victor Torres, Andrew Murgatroyd, Antonio Abete, Jelle Draijer
    Audio CD (December 17, 1996)
    SPARS Code: DDD
    Number of Discs: 2
    Label: Harmonia Mundi HMC901566.67
    Amazon.com ASIN: B0000007AJ

    Tracklist

    CD 1
    01 - Deus In Adjutorium Listen
    02 - Dixit Dominus Listen
    03 - Nigra Sum Listen
    04 - Laudate Pueri Listen
    05 - Pulchra Es Listen
    06 - Laetatus Sum Listen
    07 - Duo Seraphim Listen
    08 - Nisi Dominus Listen
    09 - Audi Coelum Listen
    10 - Lauda Jerusalem Listen

    CD 2
    01 - Ave Maris Stella Listen
    02 - Sonata A 8 Sopra Sancta Maria Pro Nobis Listen
    03 - Magnificat Listen
    04 - Et Exultavit Listen
    05 - Quia Respexit Listen
    06 - Quia Fecit Listen
    07 - Et Misericordia Listen
    08 - Fecit Potentiam Listen
    09 - Deposuit Listen
    10 - Esurientes Listen
    11 - Suscepit Israel Listen
    12 - Sicut Locutus Est Listen
    13 - Gloria Patri Listen
    14 - Sicut Erat Listen


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