Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine Classical Harmonia Mundi

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Label Catalogue Number:
90271011DI

Release Date: September 2023
Originally recorded in September 2023

Genre:
Classical

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After ‘Stravaganza d’amore’, their superb album of late sixteenth-century Florentine music, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion return to Italy, this time to Mantua. Here they offer us their reading of one of the peaks of sacred music from this period: Monteverdi’s Vespers. Revealing like no other interpreters the poignant interiority of these pieces, they bring out to the full their inherent sense of theatre. An overwhelming experience.

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Reviews

“… this is widescreen Monteverdi, sumptuously performed and recorded…”

Peter Quantrill – Hi-Fi News – 28 December 2023

Winner of Choral Award 2024

BBC Music Magazine – February 2024

Recordings of the Year Winner

Presto Classical Music Award 2023

International Classical Music Award 2024 Nomination in the Baroque Vocal category

International Classical Music Awards 2024

Recording of the Month

“This has to be one of the most gripping and impactful recordings of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 available right now. It is bursting with energy and passion at every opportunity…”

Edward Breen – Gramophone magazine – Awards Issue 2023

Performance **** Recording ****

Anthony Pryer – BBC Music magazine – November 2023

***** Coup de cœur

Philippe Venturini – Classica magazine (France) – October 2023

Pizzicato Supersonic

“…First of all, this Marian Vespers sounds wonderfully refreshing, lively, vital, rhythmically and musically immensely colorful and varied. One senses in every phrase the theatricality, the stage-like quality that the great opera composer Monteverdi also brings to this composition. The Pygmalion ensemble initially sets the listener’s mental cinema in motion, letting the occasionally opulent sound create the image of a splendid courtly feast, such as often took place at the court of Mantua in Monteverdi’s time…”

Guy Engels – Pizzicato.lu – 10 September 2023

Recording of the Week

“… This could very well be the performance of the Vespers to have.”

David Smith – Prestomusic.com – 1 September 2023

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