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Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers are rightly considered to be one of the greatest monuments of Baroque church music. Stephen Stubbs, with the ensembles Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino, along with a group of top-notch singers, began to perform the Vespers on a yearly basis at the Pieterskerk in Leiden in 1998. The event developed into a musical capella, something like what Monteverdi must have had at St. Mark’s. The beautiful acoustics of the Pieterskerk, the inspirational "voice" of the great organ there, but most of all the warm atmosphere of a yearly “family” event that included both the musicians and the staff and visitors of the church have created what one might be tempted to call the "Leiden Vespers." This is the wonderful experience that has been captured on this exhilarating CD.
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, "composti sopra canti fermi"
Deus in adiutorium - Domine ad adiuvandum
Dixit Dominus
Nigra sum
Laudate pueri Dominum
Pulchra es
Laetatus sum
Duo seraphim
Nisi Dominus
Audi coelum verba mea
Lauda Jerusalem
Sonata sopra Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis
Ave maris stella
Magnificat: Magnificat anima mea Dominum
Magnificat: Et exultavit
Magnificat: Quia respexit
Magnificat: Quia fecit mihi magna
Magnificat: Et misericordia eius
Magnificat: Fecit potentiam
Magnificat: Deposuit potentes
Magnificat: Esurientes implevit bonis
Magnificat: Suscepit Israel
Magnificat: Sicut locutus est
Magnificat: Gloria Patri
Magnificat: Sicut erat in principio
Heinrich Scheidemann: Praeambulum in G major
Praeambulum in G major
Heinrich Scheidemann: Fantasia in D minor
Fantasia in D minor
Heinrich Scheidemann: Dic nobis Maria
Dic nobis Maria
Heinrich Scheidemann: Magnificat VIII toni
Magnificat VIII toni
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