Renders Monteverdi’s Vespers with crystalline one-to-a-part clarity, radiant brass, and transparent polyphony. Balances beauty and care against polite choral timbres and tempos sometimes too studious.
Disc 1
1
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 1, Deus in adiutorium meum intende
2:04
2
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 2, Dixit Dominus
8:06
3
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum
4:20
4
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 4, Laudate pueri Dominum
6:55
5
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 5, Pulchra es
3:54
6
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 6, Laetatus sum
7:06
7
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 7, Duo Seraphim
6:13
8
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 8, Nisi Dominus
5:18
9
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 9, Audi coelum
8:29
Disc 2
1
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 10, Lauda Ierusalem
4:18
2
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 11, Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
7:20
3
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 12, Ave maris stella - Hymnus
7:34
4
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 13, Magnificat
0:46
5
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 14, Et exultavit
1:08
6
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 15, Quia respexit
1:38
7
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 16, Quia fecit mihi magna
1:03
8
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 17, Et misericordia
2:01
9
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 18, Fecit potentiam
0:59
10
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 19, Deposuit potentes
2:13
11
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 20, Esurientes
1:19
12
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 21, Suscepit Israel
1:10
13
Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 22, Sicut locutus est