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Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 / Pearlman, Boston Baroque by Janice Chandler (CD, Oct-1997, 2 Discs, Telarc) 
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 / Pearlman, Boston Baroque by Janice Chandler (CD, Oct-1997, 2 Discs, Telarc)

 
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 / Pearlman, Boston Baroque by Janice Chandler (CD, Oct-1997, 2 Discs, Telarc)

Release Date: Oct 1997
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2 Discs
Record Label: Telarc
Genre: Classical, Vespers
UPC: 089408045325
Product ID: EPID55098761
Description: This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Awards for "Best Engingeered Album, Classical" and "Best Choral Performance." Claudio Monteverdi's 'Vespers of the Blessed Virgin' are among history's great showpieces, having set new standards ...
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Playing Time:93 min.
Contributing Artists:Brad Diamond, Christòpheren Nomura, Jeff Mattsey, Karen Clift, Lynton Atkinson, Richard Croft
Distributor:Telarc Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:DDD

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This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Awards for "Best Engingeered Album, Classical" and "Best Choral Performance."
Claudio Monteverdi's 'Vespers of the Blessed Virgin' are among history's great showpieces, having set new standards for sonic opulence in the early Baroque which are still hard to surpass today. Scored for seven vocal soloists, multiple choirs and orchestra, the Vespers, as published in 1610, are settings of texts common to the various feasts in the church year honoring the Virgin Mary. There is some mystery surrounding the works, as no one is sure for what occasion, if any, they were written, how or where they were first performed and even for what instruments some of the parts were intended.
Boston Baroque's director Martin Pearlman has put together a comparatively large orchestra of twenty-two period instruments with a chorus of thirty voices for this recording. In order to place the music in a liturgical context chants for an appropriate festival must be added and he has done that here with antiphons from the late summer Feast of Assumption. The performance, recorded in a suitably spacious acoustic, does justice to all the facets of this dazzling work, its virtuoso instrumental writing, intimate arias and massive ensembles, proving again that whatever form it takes, it still has the power to amaze.

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