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Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol. 2

Robert King: The King's Consort

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Cat No: CDA66779

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Release Date:  01 May 1996

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571167794

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    The first volume of The King's Consort's exploration of Vivaldi's sacred music featured some of the composer's most opulent church writing, with works requiring double choir and two orchestras. The second volurne turns to smaller-scale, solo-voice motets, featuring six contrasting works that were written with a variety of different soloists in mind. Seeing the technical skills which the composer frequently demands of his soloists (for example, the extraordinary bird-like warbles in the first aria of Canta in prato or the vivid representation of Satan's wiles in Nulla in mundo), one can only marvel at the abilities of singers in Vivaldi's day. Here was a composer who was wonderfully individual, testing both musical forms and his singers to the utmost, writing music of great life and spirit which is immediately approachable for performers and listeners.
    All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music: ‘King has given us the ultimate Vivaldi anthology, abundant in energy, rich with emotion, animation, and color, and enshrined in Hyperion's fabled, warm, and incomparable sound’ (Fanfare, USA).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. In furore iustissimae irae
      • 2. RV626: Allegro-In furore iustissimae irae
      • 3. In furore iustissimae irae
      • 4. RV626: Recitativo-Miserationem Pater piissime
      • 5. In furore iustissimae irae
      • 6. RV626: Largo-Tunc meus fletus evadet laetus
      • 7. In furore iustissimae irae
      • 8. RV626: Allegro-Alleluia
      • 9. Longe mala
      • 10. umbrae
      • 11. terrores
      • 12. RV629: Allegro-Onge mala
      • 13. umbrae
      • 14. terrores
      • 15. Longe mala
      • 16. umbrae
      • 17. terrores
      • 18. RV629: Recitativo-Recedite
      • 19. nubes et fulgura
      • 20. Longe mala
      • 21. umbrae
      • 22. terrores
      • 23. RV629: Largo-Descende
      • . o coeli vox