Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis (Remastered) Vox Hesperia & Romano Vettori

• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643): Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 1 Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Introitus, Toccata avanti la Messa della Madonna 01:39
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 2 Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Kyrie 04:12
• 3 Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Gloria 04:07
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 4 Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Graduale, Canzon dopo la Pistola 01:51
• Claudio Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 5 Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Credo 06:18
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 6 Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Offertorium, Recercar dopo il credo 03:06
• Claudio Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 7 Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Sanctus, Sanctus et Benedictus 03:53
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 8 Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: (Elevazione), Toccata per la Levatione 03:15
• Claudio Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 9 Monteverdi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Agnus Dei 02:40
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis:
• 10 Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Communio, Ipsi sum desponsata 03:07
• 11 Frescobaldi: Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis: Deo gratitas, Capriccio sopra la Girolmeta 04:46
• Mottetti:
• 12 Frescobaldi: Mottetti: Deus noster 02:41
• Claudio Monteverdi: Mottetti:
• 13 Monteverdi: Mottetti: Laudate pueri a 5 voci da Cappella 05:00
• 14 Monteverdi: Mottetti: Cantate Domino a 6 voci 01:49
• 15 Monteverdi: Mottetti: Aadoramus te Christe a 5 voci 02:55
• 16 Monteverdi: Mottetti: Domine ne in furore tuo a 6 voci 03:33
• Total Runtime 54:52

Info for Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis (Remastered)

On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Monteverdi and Frescobaldi's death, two among the greatest Italian Baroque musicians, a relation between them, in the field of sacred music, has been looked for.

Thus a supposed Mass of their time tributed to the Holy Virgin has been planned, where compositions by the two musicians are alternatively proposed, with the more elaborate parts left to the choir and to the organist.

From a liturgical and historical standpoint, this attempt may seem a mere theoretical effort since the two composers were conspicuously different as far as their specific milieu and musical heritage are concerned. However, this same attempt springs from the acknowledgment of a poetical affinity between them, such as their common endeavour in getting rid of that constraining Renaissance equilibrium of forms, which represented the apex of the early Italian Baroque sacred music.

Before the Second Vatican Council (1963), the Catholic liturgy was divided into two main "performing" parts: the recitation of the authorized texts (prayers, readings from the Bible, sermons, canon, Holy Communion), and the musical part, that sometimes 'coincided with the former so that the celebrant used to perform the service very softly ("submissa voce" and "in secreto"). In the present recording, Frescobaldi plays some of his still relatively unknown sacred music, in particular those parts corresponding to the proprium (that music referring to each particular feast in the calendar) whereas Monteverdi's polyphonic choir-music accompanies the parts corresponding to the ordinariummissae (those texts which are always the same throughout the whole service).

As for the proprium, in addition to the virtuoso toccate, suitable for the openings, and the more mystical parts for the elevation of the Host, further pieces were conceived both in the lively and arioso form of the "canzone", where the music seems to accomplish only edonistic and artistic functions, autonomous from the real significance of the rite, and in a more meditative polyphony (forerunner of the modern fugue). Frescobaldi's instrumental compositions, all inspired by the services in Our Lady's honour, were published in Fiori Musicali (1635). In this great work, the author, then official organist in S. Pietro in Rome, plays the organ accompaniment to the most recurrent services in the liturgic year, with a contrapuntal rigour and an amazing performing fancy. The solo mottetto to the Communio, Ispi sum desponsata comes from Frescobaldi's sporadic sacred vocal production. Because of its intimately feminine essence, this piece, actually a responsory for St. Agnes' feast, is suitable also for the feasts in honour of the Holy Virgin. As a matter of fact, the habit of a manifold employment of the mottetti was a common one and amply demonstrated in the documents of the time. A further mottetto, Deus noster, has been placed after the Mass, together with other compositions by Monteverdi. In these compositions, recorded for the first time, Frescobaldi works on the solo voice "concertante" pattern, with a particular employment of the vocal tonalities, strictly connected to textual meaning, and the basso continuo. ...

Sylvia Pozzer, soprano
Adriano Dallape, organ
Vox Hesperia
Romano Vettori, director

Digitally remastered

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