CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale Venezia, 1640-41
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina
GCD 920914
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Performing artists
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina, director
Soloists: Rossana Bertini, Alena Dantcheva, Nadia Ragni, Claudio Cavina, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia, Matteo Bellotto, Daniele Carnovich
Ripieni: Francesca Cassinari, Paola Reggiani, Emanuele Bianchi, Giovanni Caccamo, Paolo Borgonovo, Marco Radaelli
Instrumentalists: Svetlana Fomina, Carlo Lazzaroni, Ermes Giussani, Mauro Morini, Corrado Colliard, David Yacus, Giorgio Sanvito, Gabriele Palomba, Fulvio Garlaschi, Vittorio Zanon
Production details
Recorded live in Cuenca (Iglesia de San Miguel), Spain, in March 2005 Engineered and produced by Manuel Mohino Executive producer: Carlos Céster Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet essay: Stefano Russomanno English Français Deutsch Español
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
Selva Morale e SpiritualeVenezia, 1640-41
CD I (62:44)Vespro di San Gabriele Arcangelo
CD II (72:47)Vespro di San Giuseppe
CD III (72:53)Missa Solemnis
About this CD
After the completion, a few months back, of their Monteverdi Edition – which gathers together the entirety of the madrigal output by Claudio Monteverdi – La Venexiana now issues three discs recorded live at the 2005 Semana de Música Religiosa Festival in Cuenca: the ensemble’s founder members (such as Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia and Daniele Carnovich) are to be heard in the company of a select group of instrumentalists and singers, all of them under the direction of Claudio Cavina, for a memorable journey through the pieces contained within the Selva Morale e Spirituale.
Rather than following the order of the printed edition, La Venexiana has preferred here to arrange the sequence of pieces into three substantial liturgical settings, each one equipped with its own self-governing character. The first two discs contain one office of Vespers each, taking advantage of the fact that Monteverdi provided double (and sometimes even triple) versions of the Dixit Dominus, Confitebor, Beatus vir, Laudate pueri, Laudate Dominum, Magnificat and Salve Regina. The programme for the third disc has essentially been created around the Messa a 4 and includes other free-standing mass sections. The effect is of constructing a grand missa solemnis that perhaps might have been heard on November 21, 1631 in Saint Mark’s to celebrate the cessation of the plague epidemic in Venice.
With a recently-presented Gramophone Award for the ensemble’s indispensable recording of L’Orfeo still fresh in the mind, this disc will undoubtedly bring much delight to lovers of the music of the two Claudios: Monteverdi and Cavina…
At Glossa we are very proud to salute the musical talents of our artists, whose splendid recordings ended 2008 receiving further critical approval, important echoes of how other music-lovers have been reacting across the year. Back in September 2008 Claudio Cavina of La Venexiana received its second Gramophone Award in London when their recording of Montervedi's L'Orfeo was voted by the UK magazine's critics as the winner in the Baroque Vocal category. [read more...]
Not for the first time in their illustrious career, Claudio Cavina and his Italian vocal and instrumental ensemble La Venexiana have just received a strong critical vote of approval for their artistry, with the announcement on Thursday September 25th that they have won a coveted Classic fM Gramophone Award. Claudio Cavina was on hand to collect the Baroque Vocal Award for 2008 (decided on by the specialist critics of the UK-based Gramophone magazine) at a ceremony held in London, UK for his and La Venexiana’s recording of the fabula in musica by Claudio Monteverdi, L’Orfeo.[read more...]