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Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine | Alpha ALPHA552

Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA552

Barcode: 3760014195525

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 11th October 2019

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Contents

Artists

Claire Lefilliatre (soprano)
Fiona McGown (mezzo-soprano)
Eugenie De Mey (alto)
Francisco Manalich (tenor)
Sebastien Obrecht (tenor)
Pierre-Antoine Chaumien (tenor)
Renuad Bres (bass)
Arnaud Richard (bass)
La Tempete

Conductor

Simon-Pierre Bestion

Works

Monteverdi, Claudio

Vespro della beata Vergine

Artists

Claire Lefilliatre (soprano)
Fiona McGown (mezzo-soprano)
Eugenie De Mey (alto)
Francisco Manalich (tenor)
Sebastien Obrecht (tenor)
Pierre-Antoine Chaumien (tenor)
Renuad Bres (bass)
Arnaud Richard (bass)
La Tempete

Conductor

Simon-Pierre Bestion

About

Here are the Monteverdi Vespers as you’ve never heard them before! ‘I see these Vespers as a great incantatory ritual that connects the sacred with the pagan, the intimate with the collective. I experienced this powerful sensation many times in my childhood, in the choir of an abbey: the intense, warm light of a late summer day, filtering in from the west and reflected all the way up to the choir’, says Simon-Pierre Bestion. The founder of La Tempête has made very personal choices for this recording, notably concerning the composition of the orchestra, which he has enriched with instruments from different cultures, including the serpent and the chitarrone. He has added ‘fauxbourdons’, simple improvised chants deriving from folk tradition. The colours of the voices in these Vespers are also very unusual: Bestion follows in the tradition of oral polyphony as it still exists in Corsica, Sardinia and Georgia.

Reviews

Anyone who thinks that the words ‘marmite’ and ‘Monteverdi’ should not exist in the same sentence, look away now. Baroque ‘n’ roll or baroque-y horror, Monteverdi Vespro finds vocal and instrumental ensemble La Tempête living up to its name. Thrillingly exciting and dramatic, with folksy bits and some positively off-thewall ideas... Does it entertain? No doubt. Will it shock traditionalists? Surely, but it may also provoke helpful debate.
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