Robert King: The King's Consort
Release Date: 01 February 2004
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571168494
Description
Ten years and eleven discs after its triumphant inception, Robert Kingâs complete recording of Vivaldiâs sacred music reaches a worthy end. The Gloria, RV589 â this is the âfamousâ one, beloved of choral societies the world overâprovides a suitably ebullient opening to a recording which also includes the lyrical Ostro picta sublimely sung by Carolyn Sampson and the Gloria by Ruggieriâthe work from which Vivaldi stole many of the best ideas for his own settings of the same text.
Of great significance also is the first recording of the newly discovered Nisi Dominus, RV803âVivaldiâs âlatest workâ, as it were. Discovered in a Dresden library in 2003, this opulent setting is for three soloists, strings, continuo and five extraordinary solo instruments (including the fantastical âviolino in tromba marinaââthe eighteenth centuryâs equivalent of the modern âjazz violinâ?). As a historical discovery, this new work is important; as the keystone of this final disc in a ground-breaking series, it is perfect.
All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music: âKing has given us the ultimate Vivaldi anthology, abundant in energy, rich with emotion, animation, and color, and enshrined in Hyperion's fabled, warm, and incomparable soundâ (Fanfare, USA).
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
Robert King: The King's Consort
Robert King: The King's Consort, New College Choir Oxford
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Robert King: The King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King: The King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King: The King's Consort, King's Consort Choir
Robert King: The King's Consort, New College Choir Oxford
Robert King: The King's Consort
