Vivaldi - Sacred Music 7 - Hyperion: CDA66819 - download

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Volume 6 of this series was a Gramophone Award nominee in 2001 and this one is just as good: it contains some very fine and largely unfamiliar music, in splendid performances. The principal... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDA66819
Label: Hyperion
Series: Vivaldi Sacred Music
Length: 68 minutes

Hyperion - up to 60% off

Special offer ends: 27/11/2024

Vivaldi: Laetatus sum (psalm 121), R.607

Work length3:36

$1.10

$1.50

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

Vivaldi: Laudate pueri, RV601

Work length23:39

$9.90

$13.50

Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rachel Brown (flute)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. Laudate pueri Dominum

Track length3:03

$1.10

$1.50

II. Sit nomen Domini

Track length2:31

$1.10

$1.50

III. A solis ortu usque ad occasum

Track length3:32

$1.10

$1.50

IV. Excelsus super omnes gentes

Track length2:48

$1.10

$1.50

V. Suscitans a terra inopem

Track length2:15

$1.10

$1.50

VI. Ut collocet eum

Track length1:49

$1.10

$1.50

VII. Gloria Patri

Track length4:29

$1.10

$1.50

VIII. Gloria Patri

Track length0:51

$1.10

$1.50

IX. Amen

Track length2:21

$1.10

$1.50

Vivaldi: Vestro Principi divino - Mottetto per contralto, archi e continuo RV 633 in F major

Work length8:19

$4.40

$6.00

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. Vestro Principi divino

Track length3:59

$1.10

$1.50

II. O felix culpa

Track length0:38

$1.10

$1.50

III. Quid loqueris ad cor

Track length2:14

$1.10

$1.50

IV. Alleluia

Track length1:28

$1.10

$1.50

Vivaldi: Introduzione al Gloria, RV 639 'Jubilate, o amoeni chori'

Work length5:13

$2.20

$3.00

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
King's Consort
Robert King

I. Jubilate, o amoeni chori

Track length4:40

$1.10

$1.50

II. In tam solemni pompa

Track length0:33

$1.10

$1.50

Vivaldi: Gloria, RV588

Work length28:05

$12.10

$16.50

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Susan Gritton (soprano), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), Alexandra Bellamy (oboe)
King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King

I. Sonoro modulamine – Gloria in excelsis Deo

Track length3:40

$1.10

$1.50

II. Et in terra pax hominibus

Track length6:00

$1.10

$1.50

III. Laudamus te

Track length2:37

$1.10

$1.50

IV. Gratias agimus tibi

Track length0:59

$1.10

$1.50

V. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis

Track length1:46

$1.10

$1.50

VI. Domine Fili unigenite

Track length1:12

$1.10

$1.50

VII. Domine Deus, agnus Dei

Track length2:24

$1.10

$1.50

VIII. Qui tollis peccata mundi

Track length1:30

$1.10

$1.50

IX. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

Track length3:00

$1.10

$1.50

X. Quoniam tu solus sanctus

Track length1:33

$1.10

$1.50

XI. Cum Sancto Spiritu

Track length3:24

$1.10

$1.50

About
Reviews
Explore

About

The latest volume in The King's Consort's much-acclaimed Vivaldi series brings two further major sacred works, and two smaller ones. Vivaldi wrote his famous setting of Laudate pueri, RV601, for an outstanding young singer, required to possess not only a huge pair of lungs, but also an enormous vocal range, stretching up to top D. Robert King's soloist is one of the fastest ascending stars in the current musical firmament, the virtuosic Carolyn Sampson: her exuberant, clear-voiced rendition is a true delight. French alto Nathalie Stutzmann, much praised for her performances in volume 6 of the series, sings the equally virtuosic introduction to the Gloria Jubilate, o amoeni chori: that setting of the Gloria (RV 588) is not the much-loved (and much-recorded) one, but a colourful setting reckoned by scholars to be an even finer work. Nathalie Stutzmann also sings the lyrical motet Vestro principi divino (RV 633), and the fine-voiced Choir of The King's Consort complete an outstanding volume with a lively performance of Laetatus sum (RV607). All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music: King has given us the ultimate Vivaldi anthology, abundant in energy, rich with emotion, animation, and color, and enshrined in Hyperion's fabled, warm, and incomparable sound (Fanfare, USA).

Reviews

2010

Volume 6 of this series was a Gramophone Award nominee in 2001 and this one is just as good: it contains some very fine and largely unfamiliar music, in splendid performances. The principal work is the 'other' Gloria – RV588, not the popular 589, which, however, by no means outshines it. This setting, in fact, begins particularly fascinatingly, as the choral climax to a short, introductory solo motet Jubilate, o amoeni chori; the motet elides, as it were, into the choral Gloria in an attractive and lively movement. Then follows a poetic, choral 'Et in terra pax', rich in texture and especially in harmony, and several further movements scarcely less appealing than their counterparts in RV589.
The disc starts a shade unpromisingly, with what seems rather a routine Laetatus sum, in solid block choral writing against orchestral figuration.
But the Laudate pueri is quite another matter, a highly demanding solo motet which Carolyn Sampson sings with great precision and brilliance – Vivaldi often writes for the solo voice as if it has the agility of a violin, but this clearly doesn't disturb her. There's a lot of original and imaginative writing here.
The short motet Vestro principi divino was probably written for a weak contralto, in which case the use of Nathalie Stutzmann is an inspired piece of miscasting: she sings this entertaining piece with great power and accuracy, and goes on to do the motet introducing the Gloria in virtuoso fashion.
The other soloists, Susan Gritton and Charles Daniels, have less to sing but do it with no less distinction. And Robert King directs his choir and orchestra with sensitive feeling for tempo, nuance and style. One could hardly ask for more.

Special offer. Vivaldi - Sacred Music 7

Downloads

Contents

Download queue