After the completion, a few months back, of their complete Monteverdi Madrigal Edition, and a Gramophone Award for Orfeo, La Venexiana now issues three discs recorded live at the 2005 Semana de Música Religiosa Festival in Cuenca.The ensemble's founder members, Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia and Daniele Carnovich, are heard in the company of a select group of instrumentalists and singers, all of them under the direction of Claudio Cavina, for a memorable journey through Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale. Rather than following the order of the printed edition, La Venexiana have arranged the sequence of pieces into three substantial liturgical settings, each one equipped with its own character.The first two discs contain one office of Vespers each, taking advantage of the fact that Monteverdi provided double, and sometimes even triple, versions of the Dixit Dominus, Confitebor, Beatus vir, Laudate pueri, Laudate Dominum, Magnificat and Salve Regina. The programme for the third disc has essentially been created around the Messa a 4 and includes other free-standing mass sections.The effect is of constructing a 'grand missa solemnis' that perhaps might have been heard on November 21, 1631 in Saint Mark's to celebrate the end of the plague epidemic in Venice.
Claudio Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale: Vespro di San Gabriele Arcangelo
Versiculus: Deus in adiutorium meum
Responsorium: Domine ad adiuvandum
Antiphona I: Ingresso Zacharia
Dixit Dominus II
Antiphona I: Ingresso Zacharia
Antiphona II: Ait autem angelus
Confitebor tibi, Domine II
Laudate Dominum in Sanctis Eius
Antiphona III: Ego sum Gabriel
Beatus vir II
Antiphona III: Ego sum Gabriel
Antiphona IV: Gabriel angelus
Laudate, pueri II
Antiphona IV: Gabriel angelus
Antiphona V: Dixit autem Maria
Laudate Dominum I
Antiphona V: Dixit autem Maria
Hymnus: Christe sanctorum
Antiphona ad Magnificat: Gabriel angelus
Magnificat II
Salve Regina
Claudio Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale: Vespro di San Giuseppe
Versiculus: Deus in adiutorium meum
Responsorium: Domine ad adiuvandum
Antiphona I: Iacob autem genuit
Dixit Dominus I
Antiphona I: Iacob autem genuit
Antiphona II: Missus est angelus Gabriel
Confitebor tibi, Domine I
Antiphona II: Missus est angelus Gabriel
Antiphona III: Cum esset desponsata
Beatus vir I
Antiphona III: Cum esset desponsata
Antiphona IV: Ioseph vir eius
Laudate, pueri I
Jubilet tota civitas
Antiphona V: Angelus Domini
Laudate Dominum III
Antiphona V: Angelus Domini
Hymnus: Te Ioseph celebret
Antiphona ad Magnificat: Exurgens Ioseph
Magnificat I
Salve Regina
Claudio Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale: Missa Solemnis
Laudate Dominum II
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Crucifixus
Et resurrexit
Et iterum
Offertorium: Confitebor tibi Domine III alla francese
Communio: Credidi
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Memento Domine David
Salve Regina: Audi coelum
Pianto della Madonna
May 2009
“typical of La Venexiana at their best.”
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