Vespro Della Beata Vergine

Album by Claudio Monteverdi & Cantus Cölln & Konrad Junghänel

Vespro della Beata Vergine is a collection of sacred music (a Vespers setting) by Claudio Monteverdi, published in 1610. The work blends late Renaissance polyphonic techniques with emerging Baroque concertato textures, juxtaposing choral and solo writing with varied instrumental forces, and it occupies a pivotal place in Monteverdi's career as a demonstration of his transition to new stylistic practices in early seventeenth-century sacred music.
First released: 30th October 1995

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Sonata a 8 sopra (Sancta Maria ora pro nobis)
    7:10
  2. 2.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Intonatio: Deus in adiutorium Domine ad adjuvandum
    2:15
  3. 3.
    Hymnus a 8 - Ave maris stella
    8:57
  4. 4.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Dixit Dominus
    8:11
  5. 5.
    Magnificat
    0:52
  6. 6.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Nigra sum
    3:31
  7. 7.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Laudate pueri
    6:29
  8. 8.
    Et exultavit
    1:18
  9. 9.
    Quia respexit
    1:47
  10. 10.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Pulchra es
    3:49
  11. 11.
    Quia fecit mihi magna
    1:07
  12. 12.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Laetatus sum
    7:26
  13. 13.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Duo Seraphim
    5:44
  14. 14.
    Et misericordia
    2:03
  15. 15.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Nisi Dominus
    5:06
  16. 16.
    Fecit potentiam
    0:58
  17. 17.
    Deposuit potentes
    2:06
  18. 18.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Audi coelum
    8:12
  19. 19.
    Vespro della Beata Vergine: Lauda Jerusalem
    4:55
  20. 20.
    Esurientis implevit bonis
    1:51
  21. 21.
    Suscepit Israel
    1:23
  22. 22.
    Sicut locutus est
    1:08
  23. 23.
    Gloria patri
    2:04
  24. 24.
    Sicut Erat In Principio
    1:53

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