In May Vespers?

[BBMmk2]

I was talking to my father about this and he was saying yes, as a matter of fact. There's some very good setting of Vespers. Although, I always turn top Monterverdi's setting. of which I have several CDs and one DVD!! What composers are there that have written one?

[Roehre]

In Gregorian chant they are quite numerous
Beethoven: Vespers [an excercise related to the middle movement of the sextet opus 81b (which work is the earliest version is an open question, as yet not answered, as is its authorship,btw) ]
Mozart KV 321 (1779) and 339 (1780)
Rachmaninov op.37 (1915)
David Matthews (op.66; 1996)

[BBMmk2]

Ofcourse, the Rachmaninov! David Matthews?

[Beef Oven!]

Don't forget those wonderful ones by the great Italians, Rinaldo Piaggio and his son, Enrico Piaggio.

[BBMmk2]

What about recordings?

[Pulcinella]

And Verdi wrote a Sicilian set!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And Verdi wrote a Sicilian set!

... none by Donald Swann?

[Pabmusic]

Ofcourse, the Rachmaninov!...

Remember, though, that Rachmaninov's set are not Catholic liturgy but Orthodox (although the ultra-consevative Orthodox Church refused to allow them to be used). Rachmaninov's own title translates better as All-Night Vigil

[Pulcinella]

BBM:

Here are details of some recordings in my collection that might take your fancy. Of course there are lots of other recordings of some of the pieces, e.g., Handel Dixit Dominus.

Handel: Carmelite Vespers 1707 (Taverner Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott; originally Virgin Veritas, now Warner?); contains Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus, Salve Regina, etc.

Vivaldi: Vespers (Ex Cathedra Choir and Baroque Orchestra/Jeffrey Skidmore; originally ASV Gaudeamus, now Alto ALC 1176); contains Beatus Vir, Stabat Mater, Magnificat, etc.

Venetian Vespers (First Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin as it might have been celebrated in St Mark's in 1643) (Gabrieli Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh; originally Archiv, but I think I've see it reissued in a bargain box).

Happy listening.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks Pulcinella. I have already some of the Handel you have mentioned. The Carmelite Vespers, I havn't but then some of the Vivaldi I have as well. Then there is that lovely 'Salva Regina' by Scarlatti!!

[amateur51]

... none by Donald Swann?

took me a while ..