Album Description
On this 2012 recording, previously available on Decca, Robert Hollingworth leads his celebrated ensemble, I Fagiolini, on a journey unearthing incredible lost works from the late Renaissance and early Baroque, adding to their acclaimed ‘Colossal Baroque’ series on CORO.
1612 - the death of Giovanni Gabrieli, master of the ‘Massive Baroque’ and most brilliant of Venetian multi-choir composers but also the publication of Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s very modern four-choir Vespers collection.
I Fagiolini’s recording remains the only version of these spectacular Vespers as well as of Giovanni Gabrieli’s unparalleled military-evoking Magnificat for seven choirs (meticulously researched and reconstructed by Hugh Keyte) and replete with fanfares and canon blasts.
Artists
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth
Track Listing
1612 ITALIAN VESPERS
Second Vespers of the feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (in commemoration of the Battle of Lepanto, 1571)
with music by
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana c.1560–1627
Giovanni Gabrieli c.1554/7–1612 (reconstructed by Hugh Keyte)
Bartolomeo Barbarino c.1568–c.1617
Andrea Gabrieli 1532/3–85
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525–94
Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643
Francesco Soriano 1548/9–1621
1. Versicle & Response: Deus, in adiutorium meum (VIADANA)
2. Antiphon I: Dum esset Rex in accubitu suo (plainchant)
Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus (VIADANA)
3. Exaudi, Deus (Barbarino)
4. Antiphon II: Laeva eius sub capite meo (plainchant)
Psalm 112: Laudate, pueri (VIADANA)
5. Benedictus Dominus Deus Sabaoth (A.GABRIELI)
6. Antiphon III: Nigra sum sed formosa (plainchant)
Psalm 121: Laetatus sum (VIADANA)
7. O dulcissima Maria (VIADANA)
8. Antiphon IV: Iam hiems transiit (plainchant)
Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus (VIADANA)
9. Quae est ista (PALESTRINA)
10. Antiphon V: Speciosa facta es (plainchant)
Psalm 147: Lauda, Ierusalem (VIADANA)
11. Toccata del 9. Tono (A.GABRIELI)
12. Capitulum (plainchant)
Hymn: Ave, Maris Stella (MONTEVERDI; SORIANO; plainchant)
13. Versicle & Response (plainchant)
14. Magnificat antiphon: Beatam me dicent (plainchant)
Magnificat à20.à28. Con il sicut locutus. In ecco
(after G. GABRIELI, reconstructed by Hugh Keyte)
15. Ab aeterno ordinata sum (MONTEVERDI)
16. Versicle & Response and Collect of the feast (plainchant)
17. Extraliturgical Motet: In ecclesiis
(G. GABRIELI, reconstructed by Hugh Keyte)
Total time: 71.50
Newly re-mastered for release on CORO
Previously released on Decca (478 3506)
