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The disc opens with a splendid Laetatus sum for six solo singers, choir and instruments. …the tenor in Salve, o Regina delivers some wonderfully impassioned decoration, and the sopranos in the... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Oct 2005
Catalogue No: CDA67519
Label: Hyperion
Series: Monteverdi Sacred Music
Length: 69 minutes

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Monteverdi: Laetatus sum I - S S T T B B soli, choir

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Robert Evans (bass)
King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King

Monteverdi: Salve Regina

Work length4:29

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Charles Daniels (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Monteverdi: Domine, ne il furore

Work length2:51

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King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King

Monteverdi: Salve Regina I

Work length8:46

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus II

Work length5:33

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King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King

Monteverdi: Sanctorum meritis II

Work length3:29

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Charles Daniels (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Monteverdi: Adoramus te, Christe

Work length4:41

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King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King

Monteverdi: Beatus vir a 7, SV195

Work length8:26

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Cecilia Osmond (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
King's Consort
Robert King

Monteverdi: Exulta, filia Sion

Work length5:12

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James Gilchrist (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Monteverdi: Magnificat II - choir

Work length9:32

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King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King

Monteverdi: Salve Regina - T solo

Work length5:05

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James Gilchrist (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum omnes gentes II

Work length4:27

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Robert Evans (bass), Peter Harvey (bass)
King's Consort
Robert King

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It has been almost a year since the last release in this series, but from the very first bar of the Laetatus sum setting which opens this new volume the wait seems to have been worth it: over a swaggering bass ostinato Monteverdi weaves an exuberant array of melodieswith widely contrasted instruments and voicesto draw us once more into the world of Venetian extravagance. The programme continues with a range of motets, the forces called upon varying from solo voice in the declamatory Salve Regina to multiple soloists and polychoral opulence in the Beatus vir setting.

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December 2005

The disc opens with a splendid Laetatus sum for six solo singers, choir and instruments. …the tenor in Salve, o Regina delivers some wonderfully impassioned decoration, and the sopranos in the final Laudate Dominum are flashingly bright throughout and end on a perfect unison. Nor should we forget the instrumentalists: the violinists in Sanctorum meritis dance their way through the music in a way that transfigures the bare notes on the page.

2010

The fourth volume of Robert King's exploration of Monteverdi's sacred music continues to mix pieces from different sources: the composer's authorised collection Selva morale e spirituale, the posthumous Venetian collection Messa aquattro voci e salmi, and various Italian anthologies.
The beginning of Laetatus sum I instantly establishes the impeccable technical credentials of these stunning performances. The organ and chitarrone continuo is steady and sure-footed, joined a few bars later by a flamboyant violin duel stunningly dispatched by Simon Jones and Andrea Morris, and then crowned with a glorious duet by Carolyn Sampson and Rebecca Outram. The Choir of The King's Consort reinforce tutti passages with some splendid contributions and meet the florid, extrovert eightpart writing in Dixit Dominus II with colourful commitment. In the motet Adoramus te, Christe – not to be confused with the comparably beautiful but better known Christe adoramus, te – the choir shows its skill at gentler music, although I wonder if the use of solo voices might have been equally attractive and closer to what Monteverdi would have expected.
Charles Daniels and James Gilchrist beautifully judge several intimate tenor solos; Gilchrist's glorious and heartfelt singing in Salveregina I features some wonderful echo contributions from Daniels. Their tender communication of the text and sweet high registers consolidate their status as the finest English tenors of their type. Robert King never rushes the music but cannily treads the fine line between dizzying excitement and authoritative splendour. Even if you already admire seminal recordings of Monteverdi sacred music by the likes of Andrew Parrott, Konrad Junghänel and Rinaldo Alessandrini, there are plenty of less familiar gems included that make this series essential.

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