Cathalena E. Burch Feb 22, 2017 Feb 22, 2017 Updated Oct 25, 2017 When the Arizona Early Music Society started thinking a couple years ago about ways to mark its 35th season, it thought about doing ...

Pacific Chorale, conducted by Artistic Director Robert Istad, displays its considerable vocal dexterity when special guests Bach Collegium San Diego (BCSD), one of the country's premier early music ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

The set of parts for a vespers service that Monteverdi published in 1610 gives the modern-day musician a good initial sense of how to go about performing the piece. But the bare-bones materials also ...

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Edgar-Wilson calls Monteverdi's amalgam of transcendent sacred movements "just one of the best pieces in the repertoire." Sorrell couldn't agree more. "It's honestly my favorite piece of music," she ...

The "Vespro della Beata Vergine" ("Vespers of the Blessed Virgin") are often called the "Vespers of 1610," the "1610 Vespers," the Monteverdi "Vespers" or just the "Vespers." They are also an "it": ...

Devotees of Monteverdi's Baroque mainstay, "Vespers of 1610," filled St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral Friday to hear the choral masterpiece performed by NYS Baroque. Paul Odette, internationally ...

This year marks the 450 th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi, and concert halls are full of performances of his works – particularly the 1610 Vespro della Beate Vergine. On Sunday night ...

Where: First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder; St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant St., Denver Etc.: Soloist recital: “Music of 17th Century ...

Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers for the Blessed Virgin, written in 1610, are a hauntingly beautiful, mesmerizing, masterpiece of baroque sacred music. The text is dedicated to St. Mary, but includes ...