Every artist needs a portfolio - especially one who's hoping to move into the job market - and it was just 400 years ago that the composer Claudio Monteverdi came out with one for the record books.

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Sorrell conducted the “Vespers” here in 1998 and 2001 before putting the score away until the current run. In the years since she last shaped the piece, her command of Monteverdi’s idiom has become ...

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A casual glance at the cover might suggest that this is a recording of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, and indeed listening to the first track you might similarly be led to believe that is what it is.

It's true that Bach's Magnificat is not that common a visitor at this time of year - according to the Lutheran church calendar, July is the time to celebrate the pregnant Mary's paean to the Lord, ...

Across four centuries, some of the most dramatic, virtuosic - and frankly sensuous - music ever penned reverberated through the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Sunday night. Marking the ...

When the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum gives a concert, they know how to do it in style. Their performance last Friday of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, in celebration of their 25th anniversary ...

For his first Christmas in Leipzig, in 1723, Bach delivered an extraordinary feast of music. This is the first recording that John Eliot Gardiner has made of the Magnificat in its original version in ...

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