1612 - Italian Vespers - Decca: 4783506 - download

As we might expect from this group, the best performances come in those pieces requiring spacious grandeur and a generalised awesome sound - the works by Viadana particularly benefit here...There's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: 4783506
Label: Decca
Length: 78 minutes

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Viadana: Versicle & Response: "Deus in adiutorium meum"

Work length1:42

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Lodovico Viadana: Antiphon 1 - "Dum esset rex in accubitu suo" - Psalm 109 - "Dixit Dominus"

Work length5:50

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Barbarino: Exaudi Deus

Work length4:06

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Lodovico Viadana: Antiphon 2 - "Laeva eius sub capite meo" - Psalm 112 "Laudate pueri"

Work length6:41

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Gabrieli, A: Benedictus Dominus Deus Sabaoth

Work length2:59

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Lodovico Viadana: Antiphon 3 - "Nigra sum sed formosa" - Psalm 121: "Laetatus sum"

Work length6:39

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Viadana: O dulcissima Maria

Work length2:17

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Lodovico Viadana: Antiphon 4 - "Iam hiems transiit" - Psalm 126 "Nisi Dominus"

Work length5:14

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Palestrina: Quae est ista quae processit

Work length3:04

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Lodovico Viadana: Antiphon 5 - "Speciosa facta es" - Psalm 147 "Lauda, Ierusamem"

Work length4:51

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Gabrieli, A: Toccata del 9. Tono

Work length0:57

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Soriano: Capitulum - "Ave, Maris Stella"

Work length9:17

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

anon.: Versicle & Response - "Dignare me"

Work length0:16

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Anonymous, Giovanni Gabrieli: Magnificat antiphon - "Beatam me dicent" - Magnificat à20.à28. "Con il sicut locutus. In ecco"

Work length9:27

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Monteverdi: Ab aeterno ordinata sum

Work length6:19

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

anon.: Versicle & Response And Collect Of The Feast

Work length1:31

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

Gabrieli, G: Extraliturgical Motet: In ecclesiis

Work length7:21

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Robert Hollingworth (director)
I Fagiolini
Recorded: 2012-01-20
Recording Venue: St. John The Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London

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Recording of the Week, Two terrific Italian Renaissance reconstructions

18th June 2012

A new Venetian Coronation from Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, and a reconstruction of a typical Italian Vespers programme from circa 1612 from Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini.

Following their recording of Striggio’s Mass in 40 Parts from 1566, which racked up an astounding array of critical and commercial plaudits, Robert Hollingworth leads his maverick ensemble I Fagiolini on a new journey unearthing incredible lost works from the late Renaissance and early Baroque: 1612. The recording recreates a thanksgiving Vesper in commemoration of the famous Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in 1571, celebrated for over 200 years after the event in a new festival – The Feast of the Holy Rosary.

The title 1612 represents a year of momentous events: the death of the master of the ‘Massive Baroque’ and most brilliant of Venetian multi-choir composers, Giovanni Gabrieli; and thereby the apex of the fashion of multi-choirs. 1612 also marks the publication of Viadana’s collection of 4-choir Vesper Psalms, with a layout considerably more forward-looking than Monteverdi’s psalms in his 1610 publication. 1612 presents the world premiere recordings of Viadana’s Vesper Psalms and Gabrieli’s 28-voice Magnificat, surrounded by lost treasures from the glorious period of multi-choir music.

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August 2012

As we might expect from this group, the best performances come in those pieces requiring spacious grandeur and a generalised awesome sound - the works by Viadana particularly benefit here...There's fine soprano singing in Laetatus sum by Viadana, and a lovely cornett instrumental introduction to Barbarino's Exaudi Deus.

September 2012

Hollingworth's sincere attention to detail is a much-needed breath of fresh air...[his] impeccable delivery of extra-special crunch moments provides plenty of points to knock your socks off...one can only relish I Fagiolini's gutsy soloists - none more so than the thrilling dialogue between high tenor Nicholas Mulroy and bass Greg Skidmore

September 2012

First-rate scholarship from Keyte, a welcome return of the 'liturgical recreation' and a wonderfully uplifting and educational experience all round.

1st July 2012

Hollingsworth seems inspired by the spirit of Tchaikovsky’s 1812, with his introduction of tolling bells, trumpet fanfares and cannon fire into the Magnificat, but it all sounds appropriate to the period when Monteverdi and his contemporaries brought a new sense of the spectacular to Italian religious music. A triumph!

24th June 2012

The sound is sumptuous, the performances by I Fagiolini...utterly magnificent...the highlight is Hugh Keyte's reconstruction of Giovanni Gabrieli's electrifying 28-part Magnificat, complete with bells and fanfares, and his In ecclesiis, a sonic spectacular.

20th July 2012

Plainsong antiphons, psalms by Gabrieli’s contemporary Lodovico Viadana, together with pieces by Monteverdi and others contribute to the textural variety of these Vespers, sung and played with I Fagiolini’s typical vitality, freshness and immediacy.

15th June 2012

Once summoned to prayer, I stayed on my knees happily for almost 80 minutes, fully absorbed in the latest baroque blockbuster from Robert Hollingworth’s ensemble I Fagiolini...Everywhere on this exciting disc we find bold voices atmospherically recorded, standing tall in towering blocks of sound or curling in polyphonic raptures

New York Times 23rd November 2012

Among the most memorable musical events of last season was the New York Philharmonic’s performance of 20th-century spatial music in the Park Avenue Armory. With its recording of Italian vespers from 1612, the maverick English early-music ensemble I Fagiolini brings to life an earlier period of architectural music that reached its apogee 400 years ago

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