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Choir Works

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Brian Wright presents a reconstruction by Jean-Claude Malgoire of the service of Vespers as it might have been sung at the Pieta in Venice in 1715. The music is taken from
Vivaldi's sumptuous and dramatic settings.
Vivaldi Vespers for the Nativity of the Virgin
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
James Bowman (countertenor) John Elwes (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) La MaÎtrise Boréale
La Grande Ecurie et la
Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire. Discs
Producer Gautam Rangarajan

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Wright
Unknown:
Claude Malgoire
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Soprano:
James Bowman
Tenor:
John Elwes
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Unknown:
Claude Malgoire.
Producer:
Gautam Rangarajan
Source: Radio Times

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