Hyperion Records | Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol. 08

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CDA66829

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Recording details: September 2001
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: August 2002
Total duration: 68 minutes 14 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: No

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RECOMMANDE PAR CLASSICA

'A magnificent disc' (BBC Music Magazine)

'An outstanding addition to an exciting series' (Early Music Review)

‘colorful, strongly projected performances … the new disc lives fully up to the quality of its predecessors’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘As always, Robert King leads vigorous and stylish period-instrument support … Hyperion’s estimable series still has quite a few volumes to go, and one can only await them eagerly’

(American Record Guide)

‘The orchestra … is admirably precise. Each of their finely chiselled notes gives substance to sacred inspiration’ (Goldberg)

‘Another well-executed Vivaldi disc, then, from King, who with this series is showing that his good ear for the right singer is matched by innate sympathy for the music’ (Gramophone)

‘beautifully performed … It doesn’t get much better than this’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘L’orchestre est absolument superbe de précision et de raffinement, et la patte de King se fait sentir partout: on peut ainsi admirer la science du coloris et la gracieuse légèreté de touché, ou tout simplement adorer l’idée même qu’il semble se faire de la sonorité idéale, fruits et fleurs mêlés’ (Classica, France)

‘The performers give stunning vocals … The playing of The King’s Consort is superb’ (AdLib)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Sacred Music, Vol. 08

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

		Sum in medio tempestatum, RV632
1		Movement 1: Sum in medio tempestatum [6:35] Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano)
2		Movement 2: Quid ergo faciam [0:55] Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano)
3		Movement 3: Semper maesta [5:54] Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano)
4		Movement 4: Alleluia [3:09] Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano)
		Laudate pueri, RV600
5		Movement 01: Laudate pueri [1:58] Susan Gritton (soprano)
6		Movement 02: Sit nomen Domini [3:28] Susan Gritton (soprano)
7		Movement 03: A solis ortu usque ad occasum [1:59] Susan Gritton (soprano)
8		Movement 04: Excelsus super omnes gentes [2:48] Susan Gritton (soprano)
9		Movement 05: Quis sicut Dominus [2:25] Susan Gritton (soprano)
10		Movement 06: Suscitans a terra inopem [1:38] Susan Gritton (soprano)
11		Movement 07: Ut collocet eum [1:48] Susan Gritton (soprano)
12		Movement 08: Gloria Patri [3:39] Susan Gritton (soprano), Simon Jones (violin)
13		Movement 09: Laudate pueri. Sicut erat in principio [1:35] Susan Gritton (soprano)
14		Movement 10: Amen [1:52] Susan Gritton (soprano)
		Cur sagittas, cur tela, RV637
15		Movement 1: Cur sagittas, cur tela [3:29] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
16		Movement 2: Hostibus circumventa [1:47] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
17		Movement 3: In te, beate Pater [4:21] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
18		Sanctorum meritis, RV620 [2:18] Susan Gritton (soprano)
		Salve regina, RV616
19		Movement 1: Salve regina [3:47] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
20		Movement 2: Ad te clamamus [1:23] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
21		Movement 3: Ad te suspiramus [4:49] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Christine Garratt (flute)
22		Movement 4: Eia ergo advocata [1:25] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
23		Movement 5: Et Jesum benedictum [2:06] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
24		Movement 6: O clemens, o pia [3:06] Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)

Volume 8 of Robert King's Vivaldi series brings astonishing vocal pyrotechnics from the brilliant young Norwegian mezzo soprano, Tuva Semmingsen (making her Hyperion début), alongside characteristically expressive performances from soprano Susan Gritton and rich sonorities from Nathalie Stutzmann and the double string orchestra which accompanies her in a particularly fine setting of the Salve Regina.