Philippe Jaroussky - Nisi Dominus I - A. Vivaldi

- Philippe Jaroussky.
J.-Ch. Spinosi and Ensemble Matheus.
2008

-Antonio Vivaldi "Nisi Dominus" (RV 608)- Allegro

Psalm 126

English translation


1.Unless the Lord build the house,
they labour in vain that build it.

Unless the Lord keep the city,
he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
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Church of England 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

English text

1. Except the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it.

Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain.

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-I hope I'll be pardon for small quotation about other Nisi Dominus (RV 803) by Antonio Vivaldi, discovered in 2003 .

"Recently, four sacred vocal works by Vivaldi have been discovered in the Saxon State Library in Dresden. These compositions were improperly attributed to Baldassare Galuppi, a Venetian composer of the early classical period, mostly famous for his choral works.

In the 1750s or 1760s, the Saxon court asked for some sacred works by Galuppi from the Venetian copyist Don Giuseppe Baldan. Baldan included, among authentic works by Galuppi, the four compositions by Vivaldi, passing them off as Galuppi's. He probably obtained the originals from two of Vivaldi's nephews, (Carlo Vivaldi and Daniele Mauro), who worked under him as copyists.

The recognition of Vivaldi's authorship could be made by analyzing style and instrumentation and by recognizing arias from Vivaldi's operas.

The two most recent among these discoveries are two psalm settings of Nisi Dominus (RV 803, in eight movements) and Dixit Dominus (RV 807, in eleven movements), identified in 2003 and 2005, respectively, by the Australian scholar Janice Stockigt".

"In anticipation of hearing the works in concert or on recordings, Goldberg's Frédéric Delaméa spoke with Vivaldi specialist Dr. Michael Talbot about the circumstances of the latest discoveries and the works themselves.


2002 and 2003 were outstanding years in terms of the Vivaldi heritage, and several unknown works came to light. Let's begin with the new Nisi Dominus, which you recently identified among the manuscripts in the Dresden State Library. How did this discovery come about?
Janice Stockigt, an Australian musicologist, was examining all the works attributed to Galuppi in the Dresden library. In an e-mail she sent in late April, 2003, she briefly mentioned a curious composition which included obligato parts for the viola d'amore, the salmo (chalumeau), and the tromba marina. She thought -- and she was absolutely right -- that these instruments dated from an earlier period than that of Galuppi, and wondered what my opinion was. I immediately knew that the score must have been by Vivaldi. Such unusual instruments could have only been used at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice: the word salmo come from the Venetian dialect, and violino in tromba marina means 'a violin played in the manner of a trumpet marine'. Only Vivaldi could have included all these instruments at once! One of the five psalms Vivaldi had sold to the Ospedale della Pietà in 1739 was missing, and furthermore, another of the psalms, the Beatus vir, RV 795, had been found in the same library - and attributed to Galuppi. All the signs pointed to Vivaldi. A few days later Ines Burde, a German musicologist, sent the incipits of the eight movements of the psalm, and they seemed very Vivaldi-like to me. When the microfilm arrived, I immediately recognised the writing of the Venetian copyist Iseppo Baldan, who also copied the RV795 score and who for a long time made it difficult for musicologists to definitively attribute scores to Vivaldi".

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[whomakemefeel]

Fantastic tenor Philippe Jaroussky and great View indeed thanx for upload

[tritonusgesang]

Quelle perfection! - Quelle belle musique!

[barockeuse1]

mon air favori de cet admirable interprète ! 

[KyotoMelody]

Im so much in love with his voice. Thank you for sharing all these!

[carolineleiden]

Thank you for the background information!

[sukmayass]

Bravo! Jaroussky y're the BEEEEST!

[zioband]

great......CREATIVITY ALIVE.......ciao from italy

[Guichotpresident]

Love the voice, as ever, but i don't think this is the sort of music he's at his best at.

[gatofelixriodejaneir]

Non e il instrumento mas bello, trata-se

dil isntrumento "mas perfecto"

[gelsomino40]

Oigan la PERFECCION, el instrumento mas bello "la voz humana"

[ProVaticanus]

Grazie.