Hyperion Records | Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol. 07

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CDA66819

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Recording details: July 2000
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: August 2001
Total duration: 68 minutes 28 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

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'One of the most rewarding discs in this splendid series to date' (International Record Review)

'Quite frankly, this is the kind of disc that wins awards. Yet again, it’s congratulations to Hyperion. If you haven’t yet sampled this series, start here' (Early Music Review)

'A superb release of little-heard Vivaldi … Volume 6 of this series was a Gramophone Award nominee this year and I see no possible reason why this one shouldn't be too: it contains some very fine and largely unfamiliar music in splendid performances' (Gramophone)

'Vivid, vigorous and immaculate accounts. Stutzmann’s unique voice quite fabulous in the Vestro Principi … superb choral singing, all perfectly balanced by the engineers' (The Yorkshire Post)

'Get this new volume at once, work your way backwards and acquire the earlier volumes, and pray that this series continues for many years' (Goldberg)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Sacred Music, Vol. 07

King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

1		Laetatus sum, RV607 [3:29]
		Laudate pueri, RV601
2		Movement 1: Laudate pueri Dominum [3:03] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
3		Movement 2: Sit nomen Domini [2:31] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
4		Movement 3: A solis ortu usque ad occasum [3:32] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
5		Movement 4: Excelsus super omnes gentes [2:48] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
6		Movement 5: Suscitans a terra inopem [2:15] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
7		Movement 6: Ut collocet eum [1:49] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
8		Movement 7: Gloria Patri (I) [4:29] Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rachel Brown (flute)
9		Movement 8: Gloria Patri (II) [0:51] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
10		Movement 9: Amen [2:11] Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
		Vestro Principi divino, RV633
11		Movement 1: Vestro Principi divino [3:59] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
12		Movement 2: O felix culpa [0:38] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
13		Movement 3: Quid loqueris ad cor [2:14] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
14		Movement 4: Alleluia [1:21] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
		Jubilate, o amoeni chori, RV639
15		Movement 1: Jubilate, o amoeni chori [4:40] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
16		Movement 2: In tam solemni pompa [0:33] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
		Gloria in excelsis Deo, RV588
17		Movement 01: Sonoro modulamine. Gloria in excelsis Deo [3:40] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
18		Movement 02: Et in terra pax hominibus [6:00]
19		Movement 03: Laudamus te [2:37] Susan Gritton (soprano), Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
20		Movement 04: Gratias agimus tibi [0:59]
21		Movement 05: Domine Deus, Rex caelestis [1:46] Charles Daniels (tenor)
22		Movement 06: Domine Fili unigenite [1:12]
23		Movement 07: Domine Deus, agnus Dei [2:24] Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Alexandra Bellamy (oboe)
24		Movement 08: Qui tollis peccata mundi [1:30]
25		Movement 09: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris [3:00] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
26		Movement 10: Quoniam tu solus sanctus [1:33] Susan Gritton (soprano)
27		Movement 11: Cum Sancto Spiritu [3:24]

The latest volume in The King's Consort's much-acclaimed Vivaldi series brings two further major sacred works, and two smaller ones. Vivaldi wrote his famous setting of Laudate pueri, RV601, for an outstanding young singer, required to possess not only a huge pair of lungs, but also an enormous vocal range, stretching up to top D. Robert King's soloist is one of the fastest ascending stars in the current musical firmament, the virtuosic Carolyn Sampson: her exuberant, clear-voiced rendition is a true delight. French alto Nathalie Stutzmann, much praised for her performances in volume 6 of the series, sings the equally virtuosic introduction to the Gloria Jubilate, o amoeni chori: that setting of the Gloria (RV 588) is not the much-loved (and much-recorded) one, but a colourful setting reckoned by scholars to be an even finer work. Nathalie Stutzmann also sings the lyrical motet Vestro principi divino (RV 633), and the fine-voiced Choir of The King's Consort complete an outstanding volume with a lively performance of Laetatus sum (RV 607).