{"id":9997,"date":"2023-01-14T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/production\/vivaldi-vespers-for-saint-marc-of-venise\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T10:47:06","slug":"vivaldi-vespers-for-saint-marc-of-venise","status":"publish","type":"post-concert","link":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/en\/production\/vivaldi-vespers-for-saint-marc-of-venise\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivaldi, Vespers for Saint Marc of Venise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Antonio Vivaldi wrote a number of motets for the office of Vespers, which was one of the most important in Venice, and for which Monteverdi left the first musical masterpiece. Some of these works are traditionally bravura pieces, such as the Dixit Dominus<\/em> and the Magnificat<\/em>, in which Vivaldi displays inventiveness, virtuosity and monumentality: their performers must have been the best in Venice. The organisation of the motets presented here reconstitutes an office of Vespers as Vivaldi might have presented it at San Marco, for the feast of Saint Mark, Patron Saint of Venice: the sumptuousness of Venetian ceremonies can be heard in full force, in the echo of the Basilica’s vaults and domes, but also its precious marble and gilded mosaics. Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n recaptures this flamboyance in an extraordinary reconstruction, with a festive dimension befitting the Serenissima…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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“C\u2019est dans\u00a0le somptueux \u00e9crin de la Chapelle Royale du Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles que vont r\u00e9sonner quelques-unes\u00a0des plus belles pi\u00e8ces sacr\u00e9es de Vivaldi. \u00c0 la t\u00eate de Cappella Mediterranea et du Ch\u0153ur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n a ainsi imagin\u00e9 un office de V\u00eapres\u00a0pour l\u2019\u00e9glise San Marco de Venise \u00e0 partir de quatre motets de Vivaldi, qui m\u00ealent virtuosit\u00e9, \u00e9clat, magnificence et int\u00e9riorit\u00e9 : le Dixit Dominus, le Confitebor titbi Domine, le Beatus Viret et le Magnificat.”<\/p>\n

Jean Michel Dhuez – Radio Classique, 2023<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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“D\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res secondes du Dixit Dominus, un \u00e9lan formidable et\r\nredoutable qui emm\u00e8ne le public dans un tourbillon d\u2019\u00e9motions. Qui\r\ncapte imm\u00e9diatement l\u2019attention. Qui offre une \u00e9nergie salvatrice alors\r\nque, dehors, les \u00e9l\u00e9ments se d\u00e9cha\u00eenent.”<\/p>\n

Ga\u00eblle Moury – Le Soir, 2023<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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“La pr\u00e9cision et l\u2019exigence bienveillante de Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n \u2013qui dirige activement depuis son clavecin avec un sourire que le spectateur devine m\u00eame dos tourn\u00e9\u2013 permettent des passages en contrepoint construits et pleinement \u00e9quilibr\u00e9s, sublimant les phrases finales syst\u00e9matiques.”<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Deroeux – Olyrix, 2023<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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