Monteverdi - Beatus Vir (Selva Morale e Spirituale)

New Trinity Baroque performs one of Monteverdi's most beautiful compositions - "Beatus Vir" for 6 voices, 2 violins and continuo, from his collection "Selva Morale e Spirituale" (1641). Directed from the chamber organ by Predrag Gosta.

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Music

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• New
• Trinity
• Baroque
• Monteverdi
• Predrag
• Gosta
• Atlanta

[nickeeboy]

I've been listening to this version a number of times. Wow I just got my monitoring headphones and plugged them in for this vid. I can hear the details of the other instruments and the room reverberation. What are the other instruments? Contrabass, cello, lute. Which publication are they using for their scores. Wish I could look at them. Mine only has the Voice, Organ + Continuo Part. The stereo image is nice. I can imagine myself there. The plucked string instrument (lute?) fits nicely.

[newtrinitybaroque]

Monteverdi's original scoring is for 6 voices, 2 violins, and a continuo (usually comprised of a cello, keyboard instrument(s) such as organ and/or harpsichord and plucked instrument(s) such as chitarrone, lute, harp...). The edition we used is Novello.

Best,

Predrag Gosta, NTB artistic director

[drtmuir]

Wonderful performance of a lovely piece.

[RichardIIfan]

This is one of those pieces that makes shivers go down my spine.  It shows that culture has gone downhill since the baroque times to the dross that now is on offer. It also shows as a very broad generalization what the reformation robbed from us.

[3001Siggi]

Wundervolle Barock Musik!

[billhiltonbiz]

Fantastic - it needs to go at this speed, because it sounds like cold porridge any slower.

[mephistofleas]

Just saw a wonderful performance of this and others at the National Gallery of Canada. I've bookmarked this NTB YouTube version - so well done!

[grandadpoppyable]

@1tbo THANKS MATE i NOW SEE WHERE UR COMMING FROM. aS IN ONE SOUND, THE END RESULT IS LIKE THAT BUT ON THE SAMR TOKEN ANY MISTAKE THEREFORE CAOULD NOT BE TOLERATED AS IT WOULD STUFF UP THE GROUP AS ONE. REGARDS

[1tbo]

@grandadpoppyable Your ears are deceiving you only in that you're missing the organ and bowed bass instrument that are playing the same part. It's a sign that the continuo group is working well, because you're hearing it as one instrument, a sort of mega-theorbo with a tremendous sustain. As an erstwhile theorbist, I can tell you that in playing with an organ, I've often experienced precisely that feeling: that my instrument was producing all that sound. What an ego boost...

[grandadpoppyable]

Clearly here the Basso Continuo is Theorbo. Or are my ears decieving me.

[davehshs]

Yes, perhaps the loss to music could be considered collateral damage of the Reformation. But just think what we'd have now without the Reformation. Today's pedophile priests are just a pale reflection of the church's corruption at that time, not to mention the devastating effects on Western humanity of the church's political dominance.

[chico00566]

Beati sumus quam nos audire possemus

[TheJbach]

Excellent! Just a little bit more presto and verve and it'd be a bit better girls and boys! Thank you for posting this lovely rendition.... so beautiful!!