BaL 2.07.11 - Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Saturday, 2nd July and 9.30 p.m.
David Vickers recommends a recording of Monteverdi's "Selva morale e spirituale" of 1641

Available versions:

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina
Akadêmia, Françoise Lasserre
William Christie and Arts Florissants Chorus
King's Consort, King
Musica Fiata Kolin
Bernard Fabre-Garrus, A Sei Voci and A Sei Voci Chamber Choir
Cantus Cölln (download)
Taverner Consort Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino and Konrad Junghanel (download only)

Information about what is included in some of the above is not always clear, but it gives an indication of what is available.

[arcades]

Saturday, 2nd July and 9.30 p.m.Information about what is included in some of the above is not always clear, but it gives an indication of what is available.

And it varies a great deal :). Christie and Parrott's recordings are a 1 CD selection.

Ensemble Elyma, Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, Gabriel Garrido is also available (that contains other - according to Garrido - related works & runs to 4 CDs).

Looking forward to this. I have some of Parrott; (all of) La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina; Akadêmia, Françoise Lasserre; and Cantus Cölln so I can do my own pre-BAL!

[MickyD]

Well, once you have listened to all those discs, do let us in on your personal verdict, arcades!

[arcades]

Well, once you have listened to all those discs, do let us in on your personal verdict, arcades!

I think I'll have to dip in and out! but I'll have a go :).

[vinteuil]

Information about what is included in some of the above is not always clear, but it gives an indication of what is available.

Alpensinfonie - many thanks for the listing.

There's a quite useful wiki page -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selva_morale_e_spirituale

[vinteuil]

And it varies a great deal :). !

Very various indeed! Difficult to see how they might make useful comparisons.... Looking at my shelves –

Bernard Fabre Garrus / a sei voci
Dixit Dominus
O Bone Jesu
Laudate Pueri Dominum
O Quam Pulchra Es
Beatus Vir
Ego Dormio
Lauda Jerusalem
Ego Flos Campi
Salve Regina
Magnificat

William Christie / les Arts Florissants
Gloria a 7
Chi vol che m’innamori
O ciechi ciechi
Adoramus
Confitebor terzo alla francese
Confitebor tibi Domine
Laudate Dominum
E questa vita un lampo
Beatus Vir

Andrew Parrott / Taverner Consort etc
Dixit Dominus (secondo) a 8
Confitebor tibi Domine (secondo) a 3
Beatus Vir (primo) a 6
Laudate Pueri (secondo) a 5
Laudate Dominum (primo) a 5
Deus tuorum militum a 3
Magnificat a 8
Jubilet toto civitas; solo ‘in Dialogo’
Salve Regina a 3

Florian Heyerick / Ex Tempore
Dixit Dominus II
Laudate Dominum I
Audi Caelum
Laudate Dominum II
Salve Regina
Laudate Dominum III
Deus Tuorum
Memento
Laudate Pueri I
Beatus Vir II
Crucifixus
Et resurrexit
Credidi
Gloria
Magnificat

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I did the list in a bit of a hurry this morning before going to work. As I'm so I going away for the weekens, I shall be unable to make any amendments for 2 or 3 days, but someone "in the know" may like to do an update. It would be appreciated.

[Chris Newman]

I believe there are recordings from the Parley of Instruments and Singers as well as Anthony Rooley.

[MickyD]

Consultation of the review in Gramophone informs me that the La Venexiana "complete" version has some omissions and is not as complete as that by Junghanel.

[Rolmill]

I have the Junghanel, which I think is complete - clear and accurate, but rather cool if I remember rightly. I also have on my shelves excerpts recorded by the Stuttgart Chamber Choir/Bernius in the early 1980s (soloists include Emma Kirkby and John Elwes) - haven't listened to this for many years, so can't comment on the performance, must give it a spin. Suspect it is probably unavailable by now, anyway.

[BBMmk2]

I have that marvellous collection by Andrew Parrott, in that boxed set that was issued.

[verismissimo]

I've only some bits and pieces from Selva morale e spirituale, but of these, I have much enjoyed listening again to Emma Kirkby, Ian Partridge and David Thomas with the Parley of Instruments under Roy Goodman and Peter Holman, recorded by Hyperion on a 1981 LP.

[Black Swan]

An interesting program. I have the 4 discs from Robert King and Kings Consort and have the Taverner Consort actually my first Monteverdi. I will be interested to hear the new Sixteen CD the first of a series from that group.

John

[BBMmk2]

After the programme, I learnt even more about the music. I am quite a fan of The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, and so will n no doubt be buying their recording! Watch this space!

[Black Swan]

After the programme, I learnt even more about the music. I am quite a fan of The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, and so will n no doubt be buying their recording! Watch this space!

Brassbandmaestro, I ordered a copy of the Sixteen directly after BAL on Saturday and it arrived today. I am very happy, this is an excellent recording, the recording of the Gloria a 7 is stunning. As this is volume 1, I can now anticipate the future Volumes of Selve morale e spirituale to come.

John