Pygmalion: Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine - Venice, 1610 [2CD]

Klasyczna Muzyka Barokowa / Muzyka Wokalna
premiera polska: 2023-11-03
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble offer a vivid, contrast-filled account of Monteverdi's sacred masterwork. A new benchmark recording of the Vespers? Quite possibly.
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.

BBC Music Magazine * * * *
This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection.

Financial Times
This latest recording from Pygmalion favours a middle ground, light in gait, soft-edged in tone, stopping short of the extremes of grandeur of utterance or parsimony of expression...the solo singers here are top-drawer and the instrumental playing is imaginative. Pygmalion’s recording has strong merits of its own.

The New York Times
There is a sense of religious devotion to be heard here, as of course there should be, but what is so powerful is the expressive urgency that Pichon, his soloists and his Pygmalion ensemble so fervently bring to the music. If period performance still aims, as it always has, to restore the shock of the old for the ears of today, then this is period performance at close to its very best.

muzycy:
Raphaël Pichon, Ensemble Pygmalion, Céline Scheen, Perrine Devillers, Lucile Richardot

utwory:
Monteverdi: Sancta Maria succere miseris
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)

wydano: 1st Sep 2023
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