Vespro della Beata Vergine

Album by Claudio Monteverdi & La Compagnia del Madrigale & Cantica Symphonia & Ensemble La Pifarescha & Giuseppe Maletto

Vespro della Beata Vergine is a collection of sacred vocal and instrumental music (a Vespers) by Claudio Monteverdi, published in 1610. Musically it blends late Renaissance polyphony with emerging early Baroque concertato practices — combining contrasting choral and solo textures, prominent basso continuo and instrumental ritornelli — and it marks Monteverdi's shift toward the Baroque idiom and a formative influence on later Italian sacred composition.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Versiculum et responsorium: Domine ad adiuvandum
    2:40
  2. 2.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Psalm 109, "Dixit dominus"
    9:42
  3. 3.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Concerto: Nigra sum
    3:55
  4. 4.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Psalm 112, "Laudate pueri dominum"
    7:55
  5. 5.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Concerto: Pulchra es
    4:15
  6. 6.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Psalm 121, "Laetatus sum"
    8:44
  7. 7.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Concerto: Duo seraphim
    7:12
  8. 8.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Psalm 126, "Nisi Dominus"
    5:50
  9. 9.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Concerto: Audi coelum
    9:04
  10. 10.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Psalm 147, "Lauda Ierusalem"
    5:35

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Sonata sopra Sancta Maria ora pro nobis
    8:40
  2. 3.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Hymn: Ave maris stella
    9:03
  3. 4.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Magnificat I a 7
    21:09
  4. 5.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Magnificat II a 6
    19:54

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