Vivaldi: In exitu Israel (RV 604)

Vivaldi's Women: women sopranos, women contraltos, women tenors and women basses of Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi, led by Nadja Zwiener and directed by Richard Vendome. Performed at 18th cent. Venetian pitch (~ A=400Hz). Costumes by Eric Doughney, after Grevenbroeck. Recorded in February 2009 for Colonial Pictures (producer/director Alastair Layzell).

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Music

Tags:

• Vivaldi
• SPAV
• Vivaldi's Women
• In exitu Israel
• Micky White
• Nadja Zwiener
• Richard Vendome
• low female voices

[LucyTraves]

So glad to find this. I really enjoyed the documentary too. Are SPAV planning any concerts in 2012? Made me glad to embrace my low voice.

[VivaldisWomen]

@LucyTraves There will be a couple of events in London in 2012, including a female vocal range singing day. Watch our website for details.

[VivaldisWomen]

@starbreez3

We are not a feminist group but an ensemble based on research into life at the Pietà. When In Exitu Israel was first performed in 1739 there were probably 12 sopranos and 9 contraltos active in the coro, 4 tenors (Albetta, Antonia, Paulina and Vittoria), and one bass (Anna); this is in addition to other women whose voices or instruments are not recorded. We seek to maintain this balance in our recording. As for "strong and powerful" we prefer St Augustine: Qui cantat bis orat.

[LuisCarcamoCarcamo]

Wow......This is really a pleasant discovery, I have never heard this piece by Vivaldi, but I love it!!! Grande Antonio!!!

[panda2309]

All these women have such voices ! all these women are so beautiful !

Quelles belles voix et quelle belles femmes !

[jack1rob]

You are missing the point. We in SPAV do not aim to sound like men when singing tenor and bass, just to demonstrate that women can sing either part as readily as some men can sing alto or even soprano; quite naturally and without any force or strain. I am a bass in SPAV and a tenor in quite a few mixed choirs (with a 4 octave range) so am living proof of Nature's gifts in this respect. Unblock your ears and mind!

[EmilyGreene1984]

After hearing these female tenor, baritones, basses - they may sing in the same range as their male counterparts, but their tessitura and tone are/have never sound like that of a man's tone, except for maybe the lighter range.

[starbreez3]

Ok its beautiful, very pretty watching all those women, ok, but let's be real, it doesn't work, we can't hear tenors or basses, even if 'they are there'.

Plus this is a strong and powerful piece and they played it softly.

[syssy12]

Belle voci, complimenti

[Vanchy58]

Excelente representación de lo que fue en el siglo XVII y parte del XVIII la famosa escuela de La Ospedale de La Pietá en Venecia de niñas educadas musicalmente por el sacerdote Antonio Vivaldi. Que admirable tuvo que ser esa institucion !

[karpov89]

@petrafanafinny Yes you are right; D2 or D in the large octave (my language) is normally the lowest note for 2nd basses.

[petrafanafinny]

@karpov89

That's really hard to say, it totally depends on the individual person, her age, agility, and so forth. Like I said in another post, there is a woman in my choir who can hit the D below C3 (the one at the very bottom of the bass staff) in which case she is a low Bass.