NEW from I FAGIOLINI

PRE-ORDER for shipment w/c 31 August 2026

Release Date: 4 SEPTEMBER 2026

Album Description

Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers is the landmark work of early Baroque music. It sits at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the new dramatic style heard in his first opera L'Orfeo. 'The Vespers' redefined what sacred music could sound like — emotionally immediate, virtuosic, both looking back to the past and driving forward into the future. 

Monteverdi specialists I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth have waited until the ensemble's 40th birthday to record the 1610 collection. This is a lifetime's work with every nuance of drama and colour brought out in their one-to-a-part performance. This historically informed recording features a higher organ pitch (known at the time as mezzo tuono), with a brighter and 'made to match' cornetto and sackbut sound, new thoughts on the characterful time changes (more Renaissance, perhaps?), alongside intimate and deeply personal singing. 

Artists

I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth 
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble

Track Listing

CD1:

1. Deus in adiutorium meum intende             2.04

2. Dixit Dominus                                             8.07

3. Nigra sum                                                   4.17

4. Laudate, pueri, Dominum                           6.52

5. Pulchra es                                                   3.47

6. Laetatus sum                                              7.04

7. Duo Seraphim                                             6.15

8. Nisi Dominus                                               5.17

9. Audi coelum                                                8.29

CD1 RUNNING TIME                                     52.12

CD2:

1. Lauda Ierusalem                                         4.18

2. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria                        7.21

3. Ave maris stella - Hymnus                          7.33

MAGNIFICAT

4. Magnificat                                                   0.46

5. Et exultavit                                                  1.09

6. Quia respexit                                               1.38

7. Quia fecit mihi magna                                 1.03

8. Et misericordia                                            2.02

9. Fecit potentiam                                           0.59

10. Deposuit potentes                                     2.14

11. Esurientes                                                 1.19

12. Suscepit Israel                                          1.10

13. Sicut locutus est                                       1.00

14. Gloria Patri                                                2.15

15. Sicut erat                                                   1.57

CD2 RUNNING TIME                                     36.44