La Tempête / Simon-Pierre Bestion
Monteverdi's Vespro della beata Vergine
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- Renaissance
- Baroque
- More than music
- Vocal & instrumental
- FOMU 2023
- Musical spectacle
- Monteverdi
- Experimental
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht, 27 August 2023
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About this concert
With the Vespro della beata Vergine, Monteverdi wrote an ode to the Virgin as powerful as it is original. In an instant, the score flashes us back to the Mantua of 1610, where the composer was working at the time. With this demonstration of his technical prowess and versatility, Monteverdi would have aimed for an appointment to the papal chapel. That it eventually became the San Marco in Venice, no one will regret.
Artist in residence Simon-Pierre Bestion leads La Tempête from alleluia to amen in Monteverdi's concertant-contrapuntal vesper hymns. Bestion enriches the evening with catchy faux-bourdons from a contemporary source. We predict: choral parts that get under the skin, an orchestra that brims with colour and contrasts, and a carpet of sound that shimmers like the white horses on the Adriatic waves.
Programme
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Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata vergine (1610)
Faux-bourdon: Domine ad adjuvandum me *
Toccata et Domine ad adjuvandum me
Antifoon: Assumpta est Maria **
Dixit dominus
Nigra sum
Antifoon: Diffusa est gratia **
Laudate pueri
Pulchra es
Antifoon: Tota pulchra es **
Faux-bourdon: Laetatus sum *
Laetatus sum
Duo seraphim
Antifoon: Recordare virgo mater **
Faux-bourdon: Nisi Dominus *
Nisi Dominus
Audi caelum
Antifoon: Felix es sacra virgo **
Faux-bourdon: Lauda Jerusalem *
Lauda Jerusalem
Antifoon: Ave Maris stella **
Sonata sopra Sancta Maria
Ave maris stella
Magnificat
* from: anonymous 17th-century manuscript in Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine
** from: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, Graduale triplex, Solesmes 19791567-1643
Musicians
- Amélie Raison, Annabelle Bayet, Véronique Housseau, Ellen Giacone, lleana Ortiz, Alice Kamenezky soprano
- Brenda Poupard mezzo-soprano
- Axelle Verner, Cécile Banquey, Hélène Richaud, Mathilde Gatouillat alto
- Eugénie de Mey alto (Gregorian chant)
- Sébastien Obrecht, Edouard Monjanel, Léo Guillou-Kérédan, Richard Golian, Fabrice Foison, Samuel Zattoni-Rouffy, Vivien Simon, Gabriel Colin, Thibaut Jacqmin tenor
- René Ramos-Premier bass-baritone
- Florent Martin, Arthur Cady, Eudes Peyre, Jean-Christophe Brizard bass
- Benoît Tainturier, Clément Formatché, Solène Riot cornetto, flute
- Rémi Lécorché serpent
- Lucile Tessier dulcian
- Abel Rohrbach, Alexis Lahens tenor sackbut
- Olivier Dubois bass sackbut
- David Wish, Camille Aubret violin
- Maialen Loth viola
- Julie Dessaint, Mathias Ferré, Marie-Suzanne De Loye viola da gamba
- Youen Cadiou, Adrien Alix double bass
- Loris Barrucand harpsichord
- Jeanne Jourquin organ
- Pierre Rinderknecht, Nicolas Wattinne theorbo
- Pierre Rinderknecht, Nicolas Wattinne theorbe Caroline Lieby, Louis Capeille harp
- Simon-Pierre Bestion musical direction
- Marianne Pelcerf lighting design
About the performers
The vocal and instrumental company La Tempête was founded in 2015 by Simon-Pierre Bestion. He brought together artists from different backgrounds and created a collective with a strong character. The ensemble mainly focuses on early music or even traditional music but also performs modern and contemporary repertoires. La Tempête continuously questions the form of classical music concerts, performing in a spatialized and staged way and collaborating with other disciplines (electroacoustic music, theater, dance, lights, video, mapping). The ensemble was artist in residence of the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2023.