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God's perfection in humble purity

Jacques COULARDEAU | OLLIERGUES France | 08/05/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Vivaldi produces here a fabulous piece for one soprano. The violin that accompanies the voice is the perfect mate for it. Voice and instrument are working together and reaching perfection. This piece of music is supposed to demonstrate the great qualities of the singer, the virtuosity of her voice in a meanderous music that enhances her art. But this is also a religious piece and the meaning is dictating the form and the atmosphere of the singing and the music. It has to be an extremely positive psalm about the charity and goodness of God. So it has to ring joyful and full of admiration. But it also expresses the dire straits in which the poor beggar or the sterile mother are, their suffering and their total hopelessness, helplessness. It succeeds doing that through the music and the singing by using some light and tenuous inflections in the voice or in the tone. We are constantly balanced between some joyful feeling and some sad impression. The whole experience leads to the most positive resolution, the triumph of God's goodness and of charity in the world. Any sufferer has the right to be helped, consoled, supported by those who have the luck not to be in any pain or want. Share what you have with those who don't and real happiness will come out of it. And Vivaldi manages to express this extremely moral attitude both in the singing and the music as much as in the words of the psalm.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU"