2019: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Green Mountain Project

Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
Green Mountain Project: January 3, 2019 at Church of St. Jean Baptiste, NYC
0:00 Deus in adiutorium / Domine ad adiuvandum
3:17 - Dixit dominus
12:17 - Nigra sum (Aaron Sheehan, tenor)
17:16 - Laudate pueri
24:17 - Pulchra es (Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, sopranos)
28:54 - Laetatus sum
36:30 - Duo seraphim (Aaron Sheehan, Jason McStoots, and James Reese, tenors)
43:46 - Nisi Dominus
49:04 - Audi coelum (Sumner Thompson, tenor; Jason McStoots, echo tenor)
58:18 - Lauda Jerusalem
1:03:10 - Sonata sopra Santa Maria Ora pro nobis
1:10:58 - Ave maris stella (solo verses: Sara Couden and Virginia Warnken Kelsey, altos; Jason McStoots, tenor)
1:20:07 - Magnificat
1:20:57 - Et exultavit
1:22:17 - Quia respexit
1:24:06 - Quia fecit
1:25:20 - Et misericordia
1:27:18 - Fecit potentiam
1:28:19 - Deposuit potentes
1:30:46 - Esurientes
1:32:17 - Suscepit Israel
1:33:34 - Sicut locutus est
1:34:39 - Gloria Patri
1:37:13 - Sicut erat in principio
Texts and Translations: bit.ly/2O5URVW
GREEN MOUNTAIN PROJECT
Jolle Greenleaf artistic director and Scott Metcalfe music director
Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, sopranos
Sara Couden and Virginia Warnken Kelsey, altos
Jason McStoots, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, and Sumner Thompson, tenors
Mischa Bouvier, Steven Hrycelak, Enrico Lagasca, basses
Scott Metcalfe and Adriane Post, violins
Dongmyung Ahn and Daniel Elyar, violas
Emily Walhout, bass violin
Anne Trout, violone
Hank Heijink, Daniel Swenberg, and Charles Weaver, theorbos
Jeffrey Grossman, organ
DARK HORSE CONSORT
Greg Ingles, music director
Alexandra Opsahl and Kiri Tollaksen, cornettos
Greg Ingles, Mack Ramsey, and Erik Schmalz, sackbuts
with guest Nathaniel Cox, cornetto
CHANT SCHOLA
Marie Caruso, Ruth DeFord, Brittany Fowler, Monica Haffey, Grace Ju Hye Hwoang, Virginia Kaycoff, Regina Kelley, Kateri Lock, Therese Lock, Deborah Malamud, Kathleen McClafferty, Johanna Maria Rose, Susan Saslow, Johanna Swartzentruber, Anna Marie Wood

[@charleshaxthausen1626]

My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing this performance last year. Absolutely wonderful. And wonderful to relive it on KZbin.

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you for being with us!

[@jeancolapierrearmande3326]

Breathtaking performance!

[@jeff2446]

The performance is absolutely pristine. A true joy to hear.

[@artdanks]

This is truly the music of heaven! And it is performed here with such impeccable perfection, that's exactly where it takes us!

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you!

[@inglesconalan5360]

I couldn't put it better myself. The quality of the musicians and the clarity of the recordings is amazing. This video restores my faith humanity. Thank you for posting it.

[@Galfredus]

What a joy! Thank you so much for posting this!

[@jorgeurzuaurzua4011]

Many thanks TENET for this marvelous recording and video of a really transcendent opera magna by Monteverdi. This 1610 composition definitely marks the apparition of early baroque and the end of the late Renaissance. The latin script and the subject theme predicts a traditional religious work, but the instrumentation, the melodies, the arrangements, the dramatic and melodic structures belong to the baroque and to the secular music that will predominate in the Venice of the. XVII century. Monteverdi was a revolutionary genius; among his achievements you may count the madrigal a new form of vocal polyphony, mostly secular in its thematic, and the dramatic opera, of which Monteverdi is arguably believed to be the father.

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you for checking it out! :)

[@aepk1]

A truly wonderful performance. Many thanks.

[@paulrobertvincentluderitz2399]

The tempo and the qualities of this fantasticaly well done realization deserves a large applause Congratulations for this amazing achivement.Very very well done,all you guys are a revelation...

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you so much!

[@poopdotzilla6192]

Wow! Subscribed! Thanks for posting your amazing performances on KZbin!

[@jonathanbarnaby]

The duet at 1:28:04 is spine tingling, beautiful.

[@lucianoescudero7895]

Bellísima interpretación!!! Saludos desde San Luis, Argentina.

[@1earflapping]

Outstanding! And hauntingly beautiful. Thank you for uploading.

[@martinwaddell8429]

I'm trying to compensate for my coronavirus lockdown exile from my choir by exploring various musical offerings on KZbin and I've just come across several different performances of the Vespers. This is the best by a mile. The interplay of the singers and the two violinists in "Et exaltavit humiles" in the Magnificat is spine chillingly beautiful. As AlysounRI said a year ago, recording definitely needed!

[@TENETVocalArtists]

We feel the same way. We are looking forward to releasing our final performance of Vespers from January 2020 soon too!

[@AlysounRI]

Please, please, please, please release a recording of one of your performances of the 1610 Vespers. This is one of my top ten pieces of music ever created and your performances of this piece are the best interpreted and most perfect I have ever heard. Also, please perform Orfeo at some point. Please!

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you so much for your kind words! I hope we can record it someday!

[@redbrian3655]

This can always be converted into an MP3 with the KZbin converter. The best one, IMO, is MediaHuman KZbin to MP3.

[@ChelimYrneh]

STUNNING

[@dtoca8191]

This is the one to hear before you die

[@lotharlamurtra7924]

This is the one to hear before you are born.

[@bertcarter6176]

Very beautiful 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you!

[@frankensplean]

great performance. great recording.

[@ChelimYrneh]

⭐️❤️⭐️

[@glm5353]

Grande esecuzione!

[@ChelimYrneh]

I was transported back 411 years . . . to Venice ( or was it Mantua ? )

[@hwh1946]

What is so strange about this magnificent composition is that Monteverde composed as a type of application for getting a job. He most likely never heard it performen but he got the gig!

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Interestingly, there is no concrete evidence that Monteverdi composed his Vespers as an audition, though it is possible as he did dedicate it to the Pope. That said, he did not get a job at the Vatican. It is also highly likely that he heard all of the components of his Vespers during his time working at St. Mark’s in Venice for many years after composing his 1610 Vespers.

[@jeancolapierrearmande3326]

I rate this performance at the same epic level as Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s in the San Marco…..also stunning.

[@TENETVocalArtists]

Thank you!

[@giorgioperini1044]

Hai perfettamente ragione, performance sovrapponibile a quella di Gardiner (ero nel 1989 in Basilica a Venezia ed ho avuto l'onore di ascoltarla). Potente e memorabile esecuzione quella di Sir E. Gardiner, altrettanto questa.

[@ChelimYrneh]

Sancta Maria ora pro nobis

[@1earflapping]

Three! theorbos! Practically a theorbo orchestra!

[@geckofeet]

It's so wonderful with one voice per part (which corresponds to the forces Monteverdi had in Mantua, and required for Orfeo). With gigantic choruses, it too often sounds like circus music.

[@TENETVocalArtists]

It's a pleasure for us to perform it this way too!

[@mr-wx3lv]

It sounds grander as in the John Elliott Gardiner performance. But this Monteverdi not Bach or Handel..

[@ChelimYrneh]

⭐️❤️⭐️