CDH55345 - Disc 1 Track 2 - Confitebor tibi Domine, SV266 - Hyperion Records

Confitebor tibi Domine, SV266

composer

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

setting II; a 3 voci concertato con due violini; from Selva morale e spirituale (1640/1)

author of text

Bible

Psalm 110 (111)

Recordings

Monteverdi: Sacred vocal music

Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Parley of Instruments

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Details

Emma Kirkby (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), David Thomas (bass), The Parley of Instruments

Track 2 on CDH55345 [5'40] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

LatinEnglish

Confitebor tibi Domine, SV266

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No fewer than six settings of Psalm 110 by Monteverdi have survived. The three included on this disc are quite different and demonstrate that Monteverdi was more interested in using the framework of the Psalm to explore different formal schemes than in characterizing the meaning of individual words. This one, the second of three in the Selva morale, is almost entirely in the flowing triple time associated with Venetian opera, and is built on a long modulating ground bass. Monteverdi treats it fairly freely and marks off each statement with a short passage of duple time. Such experiments with ground-bass techniques were very much in the air in the 1630s.

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Details for CDH55345 track 2

Artists

Emma Kirkby (soprano)

Ian Partridge (tenor)

David Thomas (bass)

The Parley of Instruments

Roy Goodman (conductor)

Peter Holman (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-84-02102

Duration