Vespres to the Madonna by Vivaldi
Saison
2025/2026
Dixit Dominus, Gloria and Magnificat by Vivaldi
With these Vespers to the Virgin, The Spiritual Concert reveals an intimate and fervent Vivaldi: sacred music of rare intensity, composed for young girls from Pietà in Venice.
Distribution
The Spiritual Concert female chorus and orchestra
Hervé Niquet musical direction
Program
Antonio Vivaldi
Dixit Dominus RV 594 in D major
Domine ad adjuvandum me festina
Credidi propter RV 605
Psalm 147 Lauda Jerusalem
Magnificat RV 610 in G minor
Gloria RV 589 in D major
Production
The Spiritual Concert
Duration
1:20
Intermission depending on the room
Photo credit
© Eric Manas /// Zelda ZM - Auditorium de Soissons
Additional information
All travelers passing through Venice in the 18th centuryE For nothing in the world would have missed the concerts given at the chapel ofOspedale by the orphans. It must be said that the education of abandoned girls was remarkable. In order to find them a husband, the nuns, responsible for these babies abandoned on the steps of the church, trained them in what was essential to be educated wives. Music was one of the tools to get noticed. So Vivaldi was hired as chapel master and trainer, a wise choice since the musician's works played by the two choruses and orchestras composed of orphans filled the church and provided for the needs of the religious community for the education of girls and the life of the monastery.
It was therefore easy for us to draw on Vivaldi's opus to reconstruct a Vespres service usually given in the afternoon in the chapel. Vespers alternate motets and plainsong and end with a Magnificat. It is easy to identify the motets for double chorus and double orchestra specially written forOspedale. The constitution of this program is an assembly that every chapel master makes every Sunday for this liturgical moment on Sunday afternoon. And we obviously did not resist the pleasure of adding the Gloria (which is not part of a Vespers service), also composed for the establishment, yet very rarely performed in its original version with a double female choir.
It is therefore a reflection of what any music lover passing through Venice at the beginning of the 18th century.E century could hear under the direction of the “redheaded priest.” Join us in this beautiful Venetian church around the organ.
Vivaldi's Vespres à la Vierge program is receiving production and distribution support from the National Music Center (CNM).
The February 2026 tour in the Netherlands and Belgium benefits from the generous support of the Vivo d'Arte Foundation.
This tour also benefits from the international travel assistance of Spedidam
and international development assistance from CNM.
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