Vespers of 1610

Album by Claudio Monteverdi & Apollo’s Fire & Jeannette Sorrell

The Vespers of 1610 is a collection of sacred music by Claudio Monteverdi, first published in 1610. Combining late Renaissance polyphony with emerging Baroque textures, it employs concertato contrasts, prominent solo vocal writing and varied instrumental colour, and occupies a key position in Monteverdi's output and in the transition to early Baroque sacred music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Versicle & Response. Deus in Adjutorium
    2:10
  2. 2.
    Antiphon. Laeva ejus sub capite meo
    0:19
  3. 3.
    Psalm 109. Dixit Dominus
    7:12
  4. 4.
    Motet: Nigra sum
    4:04
  5. 5.
    Antiphon. Nigra sum sed formorsa
    0:25
  6. 6.
    Psalm 112. Laudate pueri
    5:53
  7. 7.
    Motet. Pulchra es
    4:01
  8. 8.
    Antiphon. Pulchra es et decora
    0:23
  9. 9.
    Psalm 121. Laetatus sum
    6:29
  10. 10.
    Motet. Duo Seraphim
    5:50
  11. 11.
    Antiphon. Iam hiems transit
    0:24
  12. 12.
    Psalm 126. Nisi Dominus
    4:35

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Motet. Audi Coelum
    4:42
  2. 3.
    Audi Coelum. Omnes hanc ergo
    3:55
  3. 4.
    Antiphon. Virgo prudentissima
    0:47
  4. 5.
    Psalm 147. Lauda, Jerusalem
    4:06
  5. 6.
    Sonata sopra Santa Maria
    6:52
  6. 7.
    Hamn. Ave maris stella
    7:45
  7. 8.
    Magnificat. Antiphon. Sancta Maria succore miseris
    1:03
  8. 9.
    Magnificat. Magnificat anima mea
    0:50
  9. 10.
    Magnificat. Et exultavit
    1:18
  10. 11.
    Magnificat. Quia respexit humilitatem
    1:32
  11. 12.
    Magnificat. Quia fecit mihi magna
    1:12
  12. 13.
    Magnificat. Et misericordia
    2:01
  13. 14.
    Magnificat. Fecit potentiam
    1:01
  14. 15.
    Magnificat. Deposuit potentes
    2:25
  15. 16.
    Magnificat. Esurientes
    1:30
  16. 17.
    Magnificat. Suscepit Israel
    1:16
  17. 18.
    Magnificat. Sicut locutus est
    1:01
  18. 19.
    Magnificat. Gloria Patri
    2:19
  19. 20.
    Magnificat. Sicut erat in principio
    2:21

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