Vivaldi A. - Gloria Rv 589 - Score

Today the Gloria RV 589 (BA 7674) is one of Vivaldi?s best-known compositions and one of the most frequently performed sacred vocal works from the Baroque period.Vivaldi wrote the ?Gloria? as a self-contained work in the style of a concertante mass. However it was probably also performed within church services. The scoring of the solo voices (SSA) suggests that the work was written during his period at the Ospedale della Piet around 1716. In the twelve movements of the ?Gloria? Vivaldi displays the whole range of his mastery from festive sublime outer movements to tender transparently scored solopassages.The same mastery has also been applied to the ? Kyrie? RV 587 (BA 8950) scored for two choirs and two groups of stringed instruments. The date of its composition remains unclear. It is a purely a choral work without solo passages.Both works can be performed independently but can also be combined as a kind of short mass. Although the authenticity of the autograph manuscript score is beyond doubt these new editions contain some re-evaluations in phrasing and performance practice which go beyond what other editions have to offer. The Piano reductions are straightforward clearly presented and preserve the character of the works.- Attractive choral pieces which can be combined to form a short mass.- Vocal score as well as choral score available for the ?Gloria?.- Informative foreword (Ger/Eng).

The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score published in this catalog in 2002 (PR 1362). Although it is not possible to establish with certainty the time and the occasion for which it was composed - between the end of 1716 and beginning of 1717 - the Gloria RV 589 is the best known among the works Vivaldi wrote on this subject, enough to be considered the Gloria by Vivaldi. The critical edition is based on the only source available, the autograph full score now kept at the National University Library of Turin, Codex Giordano 32. It restores the famous Vivaldi text based on the revised criteria by the Committee of the Critical Edition. The volume includes a synthetic introduction of the historical context and a choice of the critical Notes to the musical text. / Voix Et Piano

Vocal score of Vivaldi's Gloria for soprano and alto soloists SATB choir and orchestra. Edited by Jasmin Cameron. A well-established piece in the modern choral repertoire Vivaldi's Gloria was like much of his music ignored from his death until relatively recently.

The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score of La Gloria e Imeneo, published in this catalog. The opera belongs to a group of the so-called 'French serenatas' by Antonio Vivaldi, namely a series of works composed and performed between the mid-1710s and mid- 1720s of the eighteenth century in celebration of important recurrent and non-recurrent events relating to the Kingdom of France and its diplomatic representatives resident in Italy. This serenata was indeed commissioned from Vivaldi by the French ambassador in Venice, Jacques-Vincent Languet, Count of Gergy, on the occasion of the wedding of Louis XV to the Polish princess Maria Leszczyska, and was performed during a festa that took place in the ambassador's garden on the evening of 12 September 1725. This edition is based on the autograph score held by Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin. It includes a brief Introduction and a critical apparatus that records all the variants between the autograph score and the secondary collate sources. / Voix Et Piano

from Gloria-From Vivaldi's ever-loved Gloria this is the joyous opening movement and a fine choice for high concert or festival. Latin and English texts. Available: SATB SAB SSA TTBB.

from Gloria-From Vivaldi's ever-loved Gloria this is the joyous opening movement and a fine choice for high concert or festival. Latin and English texts. Available: SATB SAB SSA TTBB.