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Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), SV 206, is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs, and orchestra. It is an ambitious work in scope and in its variety of style and scoring, and has a duration of around 90 minutes.
This is a discography of the recordings of Vespro della Beata Vergine by Claudio Monteverdi – also known as his Vespers of 1610. Since the first vinyl recordings of the work in 1953, the Vespers have been recorded in numerous versions. Some versions are choral-based, others use one voice per part .
In Monteverdi's final five years' service in Mantua he completed the operas L'Orfeo (1607) and L'Arianna (1608), and wrote quantities of sacred music, including the Messa in illo tempore (1610) and also the collection known as Vespro della Beata Vergine which is often referred to as "Monteverdi's Vespers" (1610).
1610: Sacred: Missa da capella a sei voci, fatta sopra il mottetto in illo tempore del Gomberti: 6 voices SSATTB, organ: Venice 1610: 1610: Sacred: 205–206: Sanctissimae Virgini missa senis vocibus... incl. Vespro della Beata Vergine (15 pieces, details table K below) 10 voices, basso continuo, inst. ensemble: Venice 1610: 1611: Sacred: Dixit ...
He edited music by Monteverdi for Carus-Verlag, including the collection of sacred music Selva morale e spirituale and excerpts from it. [4] He authored a critical edition of the Vespro della Beata Vergine for Oxford University Press in 1999 and subsequently wrote a book, The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance. [5]
This article is about the Vespers for the Blessed Virgin, or Vespers of 1610, by Claudio Monteverdi whose birthday is today. His opera L'Orfeo, premiered in 1607, is the first opera still widely performed, and the Vespers are similarly exceptional.
Craft’s Monteverdi recordings are top-notch, too. The Vespers recorded in 1967 sounds spectacular, and the madrigal albums are just a delight. (Sony Classical)
Selva morale e spirituale was Monteverdi's "most significant anthology of liturgical works since the Vespers in 1610". [3] The collection of various works in different instrumentation was published in Venice in 1640 and 1641.