Vivaldi: Stabat Mater

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Here's a very attractively prepared menu whose main course is the Stabatmater for countertenor and strings.
Hors-d'oeuvres and side-dishes consist of a ripieno concerto (RV114), a chamber cantata... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: HMC901571
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 52 minutes

Gramophone Awards

1996

Winner - Baroque Vocal

Vivaldi: Concerto for strings No. 5, RV 114

Work length6:15

$3.00

$3.75

Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini

I. Allegro - Adagio

Track length2:29

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$1.25

II. Ciaccona

Track length0:43

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III. Ciaccona

Track length3:03

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Vivaldi: Cantate, RV 684 "Cessate, omai cessate"

Work length12:20

$4.00

$5.00

Andreas Scholl
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini

I. Cessate, omai cessate

Track length2:01

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II. Ah ch'infelice sempre

Track length5:17

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III. A voi dunque ricorro

Track length1:17

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IV. Nell'orrido albergo ricetto di pene

Track length3:45

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Vivaldi: Sonata a quatro, RV 130 "Al Santo Sepolcro": I. Largo molto

Work length2:23

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$1.25

Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini

Vivaldi: Sonata a quatro, RV 130 "Al Santo Sepolcro": II. Allegro ma poco andante

Work length2:46

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$1.25

Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini

Vivaldi: Introduzione al miserere, RV 638 "Filiae Maestae Jerusalem"

Work length9:34

$3.00

$3.75

Andreas Scholl
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini

I. Filiae maestae Jerusalem

Track length1:53

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II. Sileant zephyri

Track length6:37

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III. Sed tenebris diffusis

Track length1:04

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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV621

Work length18:54

$9.00

$11.25

Andreas Scholl
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini

I. Stabat Mater dolorosa

Track length2:54

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$1.25

II. Cujus animam gementem

Track length1:47

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III. O quam tristis

Track length1:53

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IV. Quis Est Homo

Track length2:50

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V. Quis Non Posset

Track length2:04

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VI. Pro peccatis suae gentis

Track length1:50

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VII. Eja mater, fons amoris

Track length2:46

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VIII. Fac ut ardeat

Track length1:40

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IX. Amen

Track length1:10

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2010

Here's a very attractively prepared menu whose main course is the Stabatmater for countertenor and strings.
Hors-d'oeuvres and side-dishes consist of a ripieno concerto (RV114), a chamber cantata for countertenor and strings (RV684), a string sonata in E flat (RV130) and an introductory motet to a lost Miserere (RV638). Taken together, the pieces demonstrate something of Vivaldi's diverse style as a composer.
The chamber cantata, if closely related to the two sacred vocal items on the disc in respect of tonal colour, differs from them in character.
Conforming with the standard Italian cantata pattern at the time of two pairs of alternating recitative and da capo aria Vivaldi enlivens his pastoral idyll with two particularly affecting arias, the first with a palpitating pizzicato violin, the second a virtuoso vocal tour de force illustrating the plight of the forsaken lover. Andreas Scholl brings the whole thing off superbly with only a moment's faulty intonation at the close of the first aria. Unlike settings of the Stabat mater by Pergolesi and others, Vivaldi used only the first 10 of the 20 stanzas of the poem. His deeply expressive setting of the poem will be familiar to many readers, but few will have heard such an affecting performance as Scholl achieves here.
The lyrical prayer of human yearning for faith contained in the 'Fac ut ardeat' movement is tenderly sung and here, as throughout the programme, sympathetically supported by Ensemble 415 under Chiara Banchini's experienced direction.

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater

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