Gloria & Magnificat

Just ordained as a priest, Don Antonio Vivaldi became in 1703 the violin master of the young girls at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. This institution welcomed orphans and illegitimate daughters of the Venetian aristocracy, offering them an advanced musical education. These young women formed a choir of singers among the world’s greatest virtuosos, as well as an instrumental ensemble, usually comprising thirty to forty musicians, and up to seventy on special occasions.

For more than thirty years, Vivaldi produced an impressive body of compositions for this institution, both instrumental and vocal, and oversaw their performance. While he excelled in the art of the concerto and opera, he surpassed himself in his sacred music. With their usual energy, Valentin Tournet and La Chapelle Harmonique capture Vivaldi’s exuberance—pure joy!

Coproduction: Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles Spectacles, La Chapelle Harmonique

Corealisation: Opéra de Limoges

• L’Incoronazione di Dario, RV 719
  Overture
• In exitu Israel (Psalm 113), RV 604
• Laetatus Sum (Psalm 121), RV 607
• Magnificat in G minor, RV 610
  I. Magnificat
  II. Et exultavit
  III. Et misericordia
  IV. Fecit potentiam
  V. Deposuit potentes
  VI. Esurientes
  VII. Suscepit Israel
  VIII. Sicut locutus est
  IX. Gloria
• Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro, RV 169
  I. Adagio molto
  II. Allegro ma poco
• Ostro picta, armata spina, RV 642
  I. Allegro
  II. Recitativo
  III. Linguis favete
• Gloria per l’ospedale in D major, RV 589
  I. Gloria in excelsis Deo
  II. Et in Terra pax hominibus
  III. Laudamus te
  IV. Gratias agimus tibi
  V. Domine Deus Rex cœlestis
  VI. Domine fili unigenite
  VII. Domine Deus Agnus Dei
  VIII. Qui tollis peccata mundi
  IX. Qui sedes ad dexteram patris
  X. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
  XI. Cum Sancto Spiritu

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Choir and Orchestra of the Chapelle Harmonique

Valentin Tournet, conductor