Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Les Agrémens, Leonardo García Alarcón - Vivaldi: Vespro a San Marco (2010) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Deus in adjutorium: I. Deus in adjutorium
02. Deus in adjutorium: II. Domine ad adjuvandum
03. Deus in adjutorium: III. Gloria
04. Deus in adjutorium: IV. Sicut erat in principio
05. Deus in adjutorium: V. Sancti tui Domine
06. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: I. Dixit Dominus
07. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: II. Donec ponam
08. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: III. Virgam virtutis
09. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: IV. Tecum principium
10. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: V. Juravit Dominus
11. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: VI. Dominus a dextris tuis
12. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: VII. Judicabit in nationibus
13. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: VIII. Implebit ruinas
14. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: IX. De torrente
15. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: X. Gloria
16. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: XI. Sicut erat in principio
17. Dixit Dominus in D Major (Psaume 109), RV 807: XII. In caelestibus regnis
18. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: I. Confitebor tibi Domine
19. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: II. Memoriam fecit
20. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: III. Sanctum et terribile
21. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: IV. Intellectus bonus
22. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: V. Gloria
23. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: VI. Et in saecula saeculorum
24. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psaume 110), RV 596: VII. In velamento clamabant
25. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: I. Beatus vir
26. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: II. Gloria et divitiae
27. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: III. Exortum est
28. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: IV. Jucundus homo
29. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: V. In memoria aeterna
30. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: VI. Paratum cor ejus sperare
31. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: VII. Dispersit
32. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: VIII. Peccator videbit
33. Beatus Vir in C Major (Psaume 111), RV 795: IX. Gloria

CD2
01. Spiritus et animae
02. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: I. Laudate pueri Dominum
03. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: II. Sit nomen Domini
04. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: III. A solis ortu
05. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: IV. Excelsus super
06. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: V. Quis sicut Dominus
07. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: VI. Suscitans a terra
08. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: VII. Ut collocet
09. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: VIII. Gloria
10. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: IX. Laudate pueri Dominum
11. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: X. Amen
12. Laudate pueri Domine (Psaume 112), RV 600: XI. Fulgebunt justi
13. Lauda Jerusalem (Psaume 147), RV 609
14. Lux perpetua
15. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: I. Magnificat anima mea Dominum (Adagio)
16. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: II. Et exsultavit
17. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: III. Et misericordia
18. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: IV. Fecit potentiam
19. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: V. Deposuit potentes
20. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: VI. Esurientes
21. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: VII. Suscepit Israel
22. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: VIII. Sicut locutus
23. Magnificat in G Minor (Cantique), RV 610: IX. Gloria
24. Oremus
25. Laetatus sum (Psaume 121), RV 607 (Aetatussum)



The motets presented here are laid out as for a vesper service: the invitatory followed by five psalms with antiphon, and finally the Magnificat. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon has opted for the antiphons for the feast of St Mark, patron saint of Venice. The liturgy can only be genuinely experienced in situ, in the nave of an illuminated church decked out in its finest ornaments for a solemn occasion. This recording is, rather than a reconstruction, an evocation of the Office of Vespers, whose principal framework is the appropriate music composed by Vivaldi.

Leonardo García Alarcón has been artistic director of the Choeur de Chambre de Namur since January 2010. In the same year he began a three-year residency at the Centre Culturel de Rencontre d’Ambronay. For Ambronay Éditions, he has already recorded programmes of music by Peter Philips and Barbara Strozzi, Handel’s Judas Maccabæus with the Choeur de Chambre de Namur and Purcell’s Dido and Æneas.

“For several years now, I have tried to imagine Vivaldi the priest in the context of a vesper service. This imaginative exercise enables me to set in sharper relief Vivaldi the man of the Church, whereas it is the operatic composer who is so much in vogue these days, and it helps me get closer to a ‘spiritual’ Vivaldi, more in phase with his ecclesiastical office. We possess few clues and virtually no historical documents to identify the occasions for which Vivaldi set these psalms to music. The Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Les Agrémens and I have taken the liberty of imagining a set of Vespers such as the prete rosso might have assembled at some point in his life. In an age when Vivaldi seems to live only in the opera house, here is a selection of pieces devoted to the Divine Office and more specifi cally to the feast of St Mark, the patron saint of Venice.” Leonardo García Alarcón

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