Research Catalog

Title

Vespro per la festività dell'assunta / Nicola Porpora.

Author

Porpora, Nicola, 1686-1768.

Publication

Ambronay, France : Editions Ambronay : Harmonia Mundi, distribution, [2012], ℗2012.

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Additional Authors

• Gester, Martin
• Porpora, Nicola, 1686-1768.
• Maîtrise de Bretagne, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
• Parlement de musique (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Description

1 audio disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Vocal music. Selections

Alternative Title

Vocal music.

Subject

• Vespers (Music)
• Choruses, Sacred (Women's voices) with string orchestra
• Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary > Songs and music

Note

• "The Vespers 1744 consists of five psalms, a Magnificat and a Salve Regina [listed by Porpora in a letter to the Board of Directors at the Ospedaletto]"--Notes, p. 16. This recording features 3 psalms and a Salve Regina; "there is no surviving setting of the Laudate pueri from 1744"--Notes, p. 18.
• For vocal soloists (SSA), women's chorus (SSAA), and string orchestra.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes in English, French, and German and vocal texts with English and French translations (40 p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded Sept. 16, 2011, at the abbatial church of Ambronay, France.

Language (note)

• Sung in Latin.

Contents

Laudate pueri Dominum : [setting from June 1745] (18:27) -- Salve Regina : (British Library, Additional 14125 ("per Angiola Moro")) (15:24) -- Laetatus sum : (British Library, Additional 13126) (17:34) -- Lauda Jerusalem : (British Library, Additional 1412) (11:29).

LCCN

3760135100309

OCLC

• ocn793323498
• 793323498
• SCSB-13625627

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries