Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale Ensemble Elyma, Gabriel Garrido, Les Petits chanteurs de Saint-Marc

• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643):
• 1 Selva Morale e Spirituale: O ciechi, SV 252 03:35
• 2 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Voi ch'ascoltate, SV 253 05:14
• 3 Selva Morale e Spirituale: E questa vita un lampo, SV 254 02:28
• 4 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Spuntava il di, SV 255 06:11
• 5 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Chi vol che m'innamori, SV 256 08:20
• 6 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Mass for 4 Voices, SV 257. Da Capella, Kyrie 02:36
• 7 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Mass for 4 Voices, SV 257. Da Capella, Gloria 03:49
• 8 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Mass for 4 Voices, SV 257. Da Capella, Credo Sanctus 08:37
• 9 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Mass for 4 Voices, SV 257. Da Capella, Benedictus 01:30
• 10 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Mass for 4 Voices, SV 257. Da Capella, Agnus Dei 03:17
• 11 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Messa concertata, Kyrie 02:22
• 12 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Messa concertata, Gloria, SV 258 12:07
• 13 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Messa concertata, Credo 02:35
• 14 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Messa concertata, Crucifixus, SV 259 02:51
• 15 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Messa concertata, Et resurrexit, SV 260 01:26
• 16 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Messa concertata, Et iterum, SV 261 01:46
• 17 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Et in Spiritum sanctum 02:22
• 18 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Ab Aeterno, SV 262 06:29
• 19 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Dixit Dominus Primo, SV 263 10:32
• 20 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Confitebor tibi Domine Secondo, SV 266 05:31
• 21 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Confitebor tibi Domine Terzo, SV 267 06:25
• 22 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Beatus vir Primo, SV 268 07:15
• 23 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Laudate pueri Secondo, SV 271 07:37
• 24 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Laudate Dominum Primo, SV 272 04:29
• 25 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Laudate Dominum Secondo, SV 273 03:18
• 26 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Laudate Dominum Terzo, SV 274 04:39
• 27 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Magnificat Primo, SV 281 13:24
• 28 Deus in adiutorium: Domine ad adiuvandum 01:09
• 29 Isti sunt Sancti - 1 00:36
• 30 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Dixit Dominus Secondo, SV 264 08:07
• 31 Isti sunt Sancti - 2 00:38
• 32 Sancti per fidem - 1 00:27
• 33 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Confitebor tibi Domini Primo, SV 265 07:49
• 34 Sancti per fidem - 2 00:26
• 35 Sanctorum velut aquilae - 1 00:25
• 36 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Beatus vir Secondo, SV 269 05:30
• 37 Sanctorum velut aquilae - 2 00:25
• 38 Absterget Deus - 1 00:48
• 39 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Laudate pueri Primo, SV 270 07:05
• 40 Absterget Deus - 2 00:49
• 41 In caelestibus regnis - 1 00:24
• 42 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Credidi, SV 275 04:07
• 43 In caelestibus regnis - 2 00:24
• 44 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Sanctorum meritis Secondo, SV 278 02:38
• 45 Gaudent in caelis - 1 00:58
• 46 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Magnificat secondo, SV 282 10:02
• 47 Gaudent in caelis - 2 00:59
• 48 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Salve Regina Terzo, SV 285 06:38
• 49 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Memento Domine David, SV 276 06:58
• 50 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Sanctorum meritis Primo, SV 277 03:30
• 51 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Deus tuorum militum (Primo), SV 280 02:04
• 52 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Deus tuorum militum (Secondo), SV 280 02:03
• 53 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Iste confessor (Primo), SV 279 02:26
• 54 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Iste confessor (Secondo), SV 279 03:12
• 55 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Ut queant laxis, SV 279a 03:11
• 56 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Salve Regina (Primo), SV 283 09:10
• 57 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Salve Regina (Secondo), SV 284 05:21
• 58 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Jubilet tota civitas, SV 286 04:23
• 59 Selva Morale e Spirituale: Laudate Dominum, SV 286 03:59
• 60 Selva Morale e Spirituale: "Pianto della Madonna sopra il Lamento d'Arianna a voce sola", SV 288 08:32
• Total Runtime 04:15:58

Info for Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale

When Claudio Monteverdi published his second large collection of sacred music, the Selva morale e spirituale, in 1640–41, he had been maestro di cappella at St Mark’s Basilica in Venice for twenty-seven years. He was also in his early seventies, but seems to have had no thoughts about retirement: as well as seeing this large book through the press, he was also busy writing his second new opera for the recently opened public opera-house of Venice, Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia (his first, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, had appeared the previous year).

This is a remarkable achievement by any standards; it is doubly so because of the astonishing quality of the music. Monteverdi offers a unique synthesis of all the recent developments in one of the most exciting periods of music history.

From Renaissance to Baroque: The musical style of the Renaissance culminated in the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose serene, balanced vocal polyphony was considered a perfect representation of the harmony of the spheres, and of classical proportion. As the sixteenth century drew to a close, however, new styles came to the fore mixing voices and instruments, focusing more on vertical harmony rather than linear counterpoint, and allowing virtuoso performers to display their skills. This newer, Baroque style can hardly be called “serene” or “balanced”: rather, it relied upon a new dynamic energy to communicate the words and move the emotions.

Ensemble Elyma
Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc
Nicolas Porte, choir director
Gabriel Garrido, conductor

Gabriel Garrido
is an Argentinian conductor specializing in Italian baroque and the recovery of the baroque musical heritage of Latin America.Garrido was born 1950 in Buenos Aires, and at the age of 17 with the Argentine recorder quartet, Pro Arte, undertaking two tours in Europe. He studied music at University of La Plata, in Zurich, and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, specializing in the lute, baroque guitar and reed instruments of the Renaissance. He became a member of the Ensemble Ricercare and Jordi Savall's Hesperion XX, with whom he made several recordings. From 1977 he was a teacher at the Centre de Musique Ancienne at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, where in 1981 he founded Ensemble Elyma a performance and research ensemble. He has a long working relationship with the Studio di Musica Antica Antonio Il Verso of Palermo.In 1992 Garrido commenced recording the key early recordings in the series Les Chemins du Baroque for the French label K617, which brought significant critic acclaim. UNESCO's International Music Council (IMC) invited Garrido to organize workshops, conferences, and concerts in an international symposium dedicated to the Latin American baroque, at Bariloche, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes, for which UNESCO awarded him its "Mozart Medal".Garrido is also known for his work on Italian music, in particular his cycle of Monteverdi's operas, ballets and vespers and Vespro per lo Stellario della Beata Vergine of Bonaventura Rubino. From 1990, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo has called on Garrido annually to make an opera creation. In 2000 the Fondazione Cini, Venice, awarded him a special prize in recognition of his artistic activities on behalf of Italian music in the preceding ten years.Garrido has conducted operas at the Festival d'Ambronay and Festival de Beaune. He has brought baroque opera home to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with performances including Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (June 2001) and Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, (October 2002).

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