CDH55345 - Disc 1 Track 7 - Ab aeterno ordinata sum, SV262 - Hyperion Records

Ab aeterno ordinata sum, SV262

composer

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

motetto a voce sola in basso; from Selva morale e spirituale (1640/1)

author of text

Bible

Proverbs 8: 23-31

Recordings

Monteverdi: Sacred vocal music

Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Parley of Instruments

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Details

David Thomas (bass), Peter Holman (chamber organ)

Track 7 on CDH55345 [6'00] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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This impressive setting for bass voice and continuo of a poetic description of the creation of the world from the Book of Proverbs is in the heroic style associated with deities in early opera. A comparison with Laudate Dominum, Monteverdi’s only other motet for bass voice, suggests that Ab aeterno is considerably the earlier of the two, and may date from about the same period as his great operatic bass roles, Charon in Orfeo (1607), and Pluto in both Orfeo and Il ballo delle Ingrate.

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Details for CDH55345 track 7

Artists

David Thomas (bass)

Peter Holman (chamber organ)

ISRC

GB-AJY-84-02107

Duration

6'00

Recording date

3 February 1981

Recording venue

St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Martin Compton

Recording engineer

Tony Faulkner

Hyperion usage

Monteverdi: Sacred vocal music (CDA66021)
Disc 1 Track 7
Release date: April 1985
Deletion date: November 2007
Superseded by CDH55345
Monteverdi: Sacred vocal music (CDH55345)
Disc 1 Track 7
Release date: March 2010
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)