Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, composed in 1610, is mighty, melodic, colourful and sometimes painfully beautiful. The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir is led by its chief conductor Fredrik Malmberg.
00:00 Deus in adiutorium meum intende
02:43 Dixit Dominus
11:45 Nigra sum
15:30 Laudate pueri
23:15 Pulchra es
27:23 Laetatus sum
35:10 Duo Seraphim
41:52 Nisi Dominus
47:10 Audi coelum
55:40 Lauda Jerusalem
01:00:16 Interview with conductor Fredrik Malmberg (in Swedish)
01:17:08 Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
01:25:35 Ave maris stella
01:36:02 Magnificat
01:37:07 Et exultavit
01:38:33 Quia respexit
01:40:50 Quia fecit
01:42:07 Et misericordia
01:45:01 Fecit potentiam
01:46:06 Deposuit potentes de sede
01:49:07 Esurientes implevit bonis
01:51:23 Suscepit Israel
01:53:05 Sicut locutus est
01:54:20 Gloria Patri
01:57:21 Sicut erat in principio
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Wallström Baroque Ensemble
Lovisa Sydén, soprano
Matilda Sterby, soprano
Elias Aaron Johansson, alto
Lovisa Huledal, alto
Thomas Volle, tenor
Mikael Stenbaek, tenor
Love Lyckelin Bergman, tenor
Arvid Eriksson, baritone
Staffan Liljas, bass
Fredrik Malmberg, conductor
Live recording, October 21, 2020
Stockholm Concert Hall
Video & audio recording: Nilento Studios
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Però questi svedesi! Coro, orchestra e solisti meravigliosi. Finalmente i Vespri del grande Claudio Monteverdi eseguiti con un suono ricco, pieno di nuances e perfetto in ogni componente. La migliore edizione di questi ultimi anni. Saluti dall'Italia, la patria di questa splendida musica.
Condivido appieno il suo commento la penso come lei anni che non sentivo un Monteverdi così
peccato che la registrazione abbia sovravalutato i contrabassi.. ho un rimbombo.. troppo moderno lol.
I'm speechless. This is magnificent.
SUBLIMISSIME jusqu'au MAGNIFICAT merci au Stockholms Konserthus et merci à l 'exceptionnel Claudio !!!
Merci c'est magnifique. Du soleil et de la beauté dans cette triste année. Monteverdi est un magicien !
Wow !!!!!
I can finally start breathing again....
This was magnificent!
Bello riascoltare una così grande esecuzione infonde pace all'anima grazie ancora
Que obra más maravillosamente bella!!!!!!!
Esta partitura es un milagro!!!
A superb and marvellous versión.
The Wonderful Eric Ericcson (+) chamber choir
A superb perfomance. The Sicut erat in principio at the end was simply sublime .
A powerful and beautifully shaped performance from these superb musicians!
Mai sentito una esecuzione così bella così dolce e aggraziata vale a dire perfetta e ringrazio x l'occasione che ho avuto con tanta emozione grazie di cuore.
This is what I like the most from Monteverdi's music. But your interpretation isjust sublime, powerfull, so high above other interpretations. Thanks so much for sharing!
Maravilloso Vespro della Beata Vergine. Uno se siente transfigurado con esta bella y deleitable composición musical orquestada y coreada con un enérgico director.
Mil felicitaciones! dan la impresión de hacernos gozar de la gloria y majestuosidad de la Venecia Monteverdiniana. Magnífica versión! Gracias.
Great performance of this masterpiece of sacred music! Amazing soloists and choir as well as ensemble and conductor. Outstanding! Very impressing! 💪🏻👏🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is like a little bit of heaven on earth!
I agree. Entirely! A heavenly music served by excellent singers.
Il Nigra Sum ricorda lo stile e il gusto musicale moderno , dopo 400 anni. Monteverdi semplicemente geniale. Esecuzione impeccabile.
grazie mr Eric per la visione,la migliore versione sentita del vespro della beata vergine Maria la nostra Madre,potenza bravura e limpidezza,grandi veramente,complimenti a tutti.in particolare i tenori spaventosi per la loro potenza!!
Vedo unicamente Baritoni e Bassi nel Conclave che inneggiano a Maria
Complimenti per la splendida esecuzione!! un saluto dall'Italia.
this music is honey on the wounds of life
Beautiful!!
Excellente interprétation. Bravo. Toutefois, il me semble qu'un théorbe aurait été le bienvenu dans cette orchestration. La première fois que j'ai entendu les Vêpres, je me suis dit qu'on pourrait presque croire que c'est un extraterrestre qui a pensé, imaginé cette musique tellement c'est bizarre et beau jusqu'au sublime pour culminer dans le Magnificat ; ce dernier est l'une des plus belles choses que j'ai entendu de ma vie. Ça commence pour moi dès le Dixit Dominus avec un merveilleux contrepoint, inouï. On vante beaucoup et avec raison les Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, etc, mais on pourrait célébrer tout autant le génie de Monteverdi quant à moi, le plus grand compositeur de cette période du Baroque naissant ; très prolifique moment de la musique italienne avec les Gabrielli notamment. C'est une musique qui exige beaucoup de souffle à écouter.
Wow the music and vocal arrangements was so good 😭
Magnifique travail de restitution pour cette œuvre si sublime, mais si difficile à interpréter.
Really interesting approach to transposing the high clefs in Lauda Jerusalem and the Magnificat.
Misericordia!!.
Gracias 😁😊
Oh!! Monteverdi.
Gran compositor
splendid!
This is out of this world
This washes away the secular dirt, and promotes spiritual uplift and awakening
The depths of my emotion is immeasurable
From
A corner ofTokyo
What spiritual lift do you get when you ready the history of the Inquisition and all the crimes done in the name of religion.
In your opinion all the secular people and their actons are without aby value to the humanity
Uno dei più grandi monumenti della musica. Dal momento che avevamo Monteverdi, che bisogno c'era di Verdi.
Hahahaha......concordo in pieno.....magnifico commento, bravo 👏👏👏😉
haha,ma per fortuna grazie agli stranieri stiamo riscoprendo monteverdi,pergolesi,scarlatti,vivaldi,traetta,caldara,e chi più ne ha più ne metta,ce ne sono ancora tanti di maestri del "BAROCCO" nato in Italia.
e grazie agli amici svedesi,ma grazie anche a tante altre orchestre di altre nazioni che ci regalano queste meravigliose opere musicali,grande rispetto!!!
The beauty is never too much. So yes we still need Verdi.
Melius est abundare quam deficere
27:23 Monteverdi went full blues here AND I LOVE IT
Oh!!
... ma che sublimità " Ave maris stella " !
By pure chance this rendition of Monteverdi's master work, Vespro della Beata Vergine, appeared in my laptop tonight and I had to sit down and listen to it in total bewilderment and contentment till the end; it's a pity that the interview with the conductor Fredrik Malmberg has no English subtitles, as my knowledge of Swedish is not enough to capture all the subtleties of his words about this work of Monteverdi and his rendition nor about the origin of The Ericson Chamber Choir. Undoubtably an inspired interpretation of the Opus SV 206.
Dear Miguel, many thanks for your warm comment! We have now added English subtitles to the film.
@@ericericsonchamberchoir Thank you so much for your answer and for the subtitles in English; it was a good opportunity to listen again to Fredrik Malmberg's words and to hear afterwards the Vespro della Beata Vergine rendition by the Ericson Chamber Choir with a much deeper insight and delight.
The oder:
John Eliot Gardiner
ST. MARCOS, VENICE
Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloist
A major BRAVI! from me to this powerful staging of the Vespers! Excellent! And I like the fact that itˋs got balls! 😊
I do understand, what the point or cause of dislike to some commentators might be, saying that Monteverdi should not be sung as Verdi, that this should be tender and so on…
but I do not agree on it.
In my opion, you‘d totally take the wrong turn to stick to Monteverdi being ONLY tender.
To me such a perception seems just romantically ‚Wrong, wrong, wrong!‘…
There‘s no good reason to believe, that renaissance and baroque sacred music and their composers would have been meaning or thinking of their music being like sung by aetherial angels in white gowns sitting on fluffy clouds and chirping and lisping one ˋleluja after the other whilst pling-plonging on some lyre… 😅
For after all, methinks, they were surrounded by a world far more brutal and morally morbid than we‘d suppose… Murder and crime at any corner, pestilence, popes with lovers and children, just like the rest of the clergy, anyone scheming, frauding their ways, ever ongoing betrayal management between the courtiers (just the normal composer’s everyday job surroundings), wars and raids…
Just very much like today, but with less safety…
And I do not believe, that basic human emotion or comportment would have changed a lot from then to today.
So Monteverdi is above and all human, he obviously understood quite a bit about human feelings and here in the Vespers he captures human and heavenly sentiments to its fullest!
Parts of the vespers surely are meant to be tender, but for many others the motto definitively is:
„Away with tender, render in splendour!“ 😊
Whilst other sets are just meant to dance for sheer joy, another one just smells like sticky sex… 😅. I mean - you`d rather have to force yourself to find the non-physical meta layer of „Nigra sum“ …
„Lauda Jerusalem“ for sure never could be thought of tender, it is like a turba choir of Bach‘s - sheer force of turmoil and joy of a crowd.
„Laetatus sum“ is pure rhythm and swing, while the „Duo Seraphim“ represent - and therefor have to display it musically as such! - the majestas domini and his wisdom maybe - but for sure there‘s no sweetness in the Guards of GOd‘s own throne with swords of flames! According to me, such kin of angels is not supposed to whisper along and caress us… but will awe-strike us to kneel down in humility… I mean - even the very lyrics say so: „clamabant alter ad alterum - they shout to each other!“
And the Magnificatˋs beginning with that sole soul of bewildered Maid Mary, slowly starting to realize what happened to her, finding her own firm voice to praise the wonders of the almighty, dragging the crowd to join in this magnificat-acclamation…
To me, this is pure drama and theatrical thinking of the composer!
Or else, if you‘d like to think of the very last piece of the whole… In the „sicut erat“, this tonal shift on the third and final repetition of „et in saecula“ meaning „for ever and ever“ is just so breathtaking, mindblowing, groundshaking - with the second repetition of ‚et in saecula‘ the music pretends somewhat to calm down and then fade away to its end, but then - all at a sudden the clouds are swept away, the sun / Godˋs majesty appears in its full bright splendour - this is Acts 7:56 in music for sure…! - and then this orgasmic ecstatic Amen to bring it to a close…
naaah - this Vespers ain‘t tender - it just ain‘t… 😊
And so, as we do not know exactly, whether Verdi at his time would have liked his tenors yelling around and bellowing like any Pavarotti bull, we‘ll never know whether Monteverdi would not have liked his singers (that probably had the potential to do so) musically scream at the top of their lungs to shake the walls of St. Markˋs like Jericho‘s 😂.
One can always find reasons for one kind of interpretation or another.
But what the Ericsons do here, is at least fully consistent, and they are able to deliver their energetic approach from A to Z. To me quite flawless! 😊
Gli " Amori " vanno messi dietro la porta, quando vi sono Interessi Collettivi Da Difendere. (A mo' di esempio , non ne cito nessuno , perché é pleonastico ! )
Nb. Non vi sono più attenuanti ma solamente aggravanti !
Great instrumentalists, The chorus is good too with little or no blurring of the line. Some of the soloists think they are singing Verdi, not Monterverdi. The real downer is the room. Bland visually and dead acoustically.
I don't agree with the idea that one can treat Monteverdi's piece as orchestral.. it's tender, I think.. I think this is what got into the minds here to overcharge the basses...it kind of ruins the balance of the Vespro.. I always love to give compliments... I find Monteverdi to be full of energy, this piece is exciting, excitement that I did not find.. Sorry
why do you need to conduct solos ???? makes no sense...
Shame the cantor at the opening sounds as if he’d rather be singing Nessun Dorma!
Doesn't help anything: "gloria patri, et filio et spiritus sancti".
We have to - live it. But we can't.
Nevertheless. Great music.
A conductor that doesn't lift his head from the score, ergo, with no contact with the choir, makes me think that he has more luck than talent. Besides that, the performance is excellent, though a copy of Gardiner's version.