Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass

Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass

HAF 8905358 (harmonia mundi, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (24 June 2022)

Playing time: 68'09"
Tracks: 26
Booklet pages: 36
℗ 2022 harmonia mundi musique sas
© 2022 harmonia mundi musique sas
Main country of recording: France
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass published on 12 June 2022

Sophie Karthäuser, soprano
Lucille Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Renata Pokupić, mezzo-soprano (track 21)
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew, director

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741):

'The Great Venetian Mass'

I. Kyrie eleison RV 587

1 Kyrie eleison
2 Christe eleison
3 Kyrie eleison

II. Introduzione al Gloria: Motet Ostro picta, armata spina, RV 642
4 Ostro picta, armata spina
5 Sic transit vana et brevis gloria mundi
6 Linguis favete, omnes silete

III. Gloria RV 589
7 Gloria in excelsis Deo
8 Et in terra pax hominibus
9 Laudamus te, benedicimus te
10 Gratias agimus tibi
11 Domine Deus, Rex cælestis
12 Domine fili unigenite
13 Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
14 Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem
15 Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
16 Quoniam tu solus sanctus

IV. Credo RV 591
17 Credo in unum Deum
18 Et incarnatus est
19 Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
20 Et resurrexit tertia die

V. Sanctus
contrafactum of Beatus Vir RV 597/1 and Dixit Dominus RV 807/7
21 Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth
22 Pleni sunt cæli et terra gloria tua
23 Osanna in excelsis

VI. Benedictus
contrafactum of Dixit Dominus RV 807/8
24 Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini
25 Osanna in excelsis

VII. Agnus Dei
contrafactum of Magnificat RV 610/1 & 8 and Kyrie RV 587
26 Agnus Dei

Recorded in March and October 2020 at the Église Notre-Dame-du-Liban, Paris, France