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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
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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