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This concise but vivid setting of the very short Psalm 116 is found in two posthumous sources: a simple version in Gasparo Casati’s Raccolta di motetti a 1, 2, 3 voci (1651) and a more ornamented one in the Messa a quattro voci et salmi of the same year. The latter probably has more authority and must be closer to what a contemporary singer would have sung. The doxology (‘Gloria Patri’) is set to a descending chord sequence heard three times in F major and then three times in A minor—another example of Monteverdi’s preoccupation with ground-bass techniques in his later music.

from notes by Peter Holman © 1981

Recording details: February 2004
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Release date: April 2004
Total duration: 3 minutes 1 seconds

Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, SV197
composer
Basso solo; setting IV; from Messa a quattro voci e salmi (1650)
author of text
Psalm 116 (117)
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David Thomas (bass), The Parley of Instruments

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Cover of 'Monteverdi: Sacred vocal music' (CDH55345)
Cover of 'Monteverdi: The Sacred Music, Vol. 2' (SACDA67438)
Monteverdi: The Sacred Music, Vol. 2
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