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Monteverdi - Vespers 1610
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Label: Linn
Cat No: CKD569
Barcode: 0691062056922
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 8th September 2017
This compelling and insightful album is an outstanding contribution to Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary... Particularly effective is the coloristic sonority of the organ which, by employing the Hauptwerk system, reproduces the sound of an early Venetian instrument. 
...a virtuoso display of individual talents
... both a character of its own and something to say.
Any recording by Butt is an event. And this one, recorded with a small, hand-picked choir of ten voices, is special even by his elevated standards. 
Butt’s series of “big” choral pieces with minimalist forces continues with this “chamber” version of Monteverdi’s liturgical compilation. The Dunedin Consort’s 10 voices combine to make a magnificent choral sound in Lauda Jerusalem, yet have the flexibility for the melismatic writing of their solos in Pulchra es and Duo Seraphim. Butt’s decisions for this “idealised” vespers are scholarly, culminating in the Magnificat for seven voices. 
Gone are all plainsong antiphons and other contextual additions; what is presented instead is a varied collection of individual pieces of sacred music. This is a shock, though the recording sounds fresh and clear, emphasising transparency without a big reverberant acoustic. 
If you want some Monteverdi in your life, you can’t do better than this new recording of his Vespers from the Edinburgh-based choir the Dunedin Consort, under their music director John Butt, a man of many talents: a first-class musicologist, a communicator with a gift for explaining complex points, and an excellent conductor. 
...a brisk bright sounding performance and if you miss the grandeur of the larger forces you gain in clarity, transparency and rhythmic flexibility as well. And the standard of solo singing is outstanding, beautifully ornamented. It's typical Butt, he'll have you rethinking how Monteverdi's Vespers might sound and it's a well matched recording as well.
