Utwory na płycie:

• 1 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Deus in adjutorium meum intende.mp3
• 2 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - O quam suave est nomen tuum.mp3
• 3 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Dixit Dominus.mp3
• 4 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - O quam tu pulchra es.mp3
• 5 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Laudate pueri.mp3
• 6 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Vulnerasti cor meum.mp3
• 7 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Laetatus sum.mp3
• 8 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Laetamini vos, o caeli.mp3
• 9 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Nisi dominus.mp3
• 10 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - O quam tu pulchra es.mp3
• 11 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Lauda Jerusalem, Dominum.mp3
• 12 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Ave maris stella (Hymnus).mp3
• 13 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - O speciosa inter filias Jerusalem.mp3
• 14 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) - Magnificat.mp3

Alessandro Grandi (c1586–1630) was Claudio Monteverdi’s Vice-Kapellmeister at St. Marco in Venice for seven years, before he was elected Kapellmeister at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo in 1627. He improved the musical conditions there in a very short time, however already in 1630 he and his entire family succumbed to the plague. The musical height of his tenure as Kapellmeister were the elaborately celebrated Marian feast days, for which the musical forces were doubled. Through their publication Grandi’s works were widely disseminated and document the fact that as a composer he proved to be a lasting influence in shaping the rapid developments and changes which took place in music at the beginning of the 17th century. The quality of his psalm settings, especially the later ones, make him, together with Monteverdi and Rovetta, one of the most important composers of his day.

His Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) is comprised of works taken from various printed collections of the master and may be regarded as a model for current practice of the early baroque in Italy. The CD is from a live recording of a concert presented during the Musikfest Stuttgart 2010 by the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart together with outstanding soloists, such as Deborah York and Peter Harvey under the direction of Matthew Halls.