SATB Vocal, Piano
Accompaniment (Vocal
Score)
SKU:
HL.50601408
Vocal
Score based on the
Critical Edition.
Composed by Antonio
Vivaldi. Vocal Score.
Classical, Sacred.
Softcover. 80 pages.
Ricordi #CP141754.
Published by Ricordi
(HL.50601408).
ISBN
9788881920389. UPC:
888680884291. 8x10.75
inches.
RV 588 is
Vivaldi's 'other' Gloria,
a composition having many
parallels with Vivaldi's
better-known setting of
the same text (RV 589).
It dates similarly from
the period 1713-1717,
when the composer was
acting choirmaster at the
Ospedale della
Pietà in Venice.
It even borrows from the
same work, a slightly
earlier Gloria by the
Venetian amateur composer
Giovanni Maria Ruggieri,
for its closing fugue.
However, the present
Gloria, RV 588, departs
from its more famous
counterpart in
ingeniously combining its
opening movement with the
final movement of a
specially designed
introductory motet,
Jubilate o amoeni chori
(RV 639/639a), for solo
contralto (or soprano)
and strings, although
Vivaldi makes it
possible, through
optional cuts indicated
in the autograph
manuscript in Turin, to
perform the Gloria alone.
With or without its
Introduzione, RV 588 is a
masterly work with many
memorable moments, not
least in its heartfelt
second movement set to
the words “Et in
terra pax”. The
Introduction and Critical
Commentary for this vocal
score prepared by Antonio
Frigé are closely
based on those of the
Critical Edition by Denis
Arnold and Michael
Talbot, published in
1990.
