- Artist:
- Andrea Marcon
Monteverdi: Vespro di Natale (Christmas Vespers) (2CD)
The Vespro veneziano that Andrea Marcon has assembled for this new recording is inspired by the resplendent sounds of the music that was performed at the great Christmas Vespers in St. Mark’s in the presence of the foremost dignitaries of La Serenissima and a large audience of aristocrats and visitors from across Europe. This reconstruction features works from various printed anthologies of works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries and presents the sort of Vespers that might have been heard in Venice over the Christmas period during the long incumbency of “il divino Claudio” as maestro di cappella at St Mark’s.
Featuring La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel, La Cetra Vocal Ensemble, and the impressive grand Zanin organ in the Museo Civico di Santa Caterina, Treviso.