David Fallis and colleagues
Early Music Seattle presented this remarkable concert over the weekend: and it was just what the doctor ordered in these jaded times.
Even if he hadn’t composed a single opera, Claudio Monteverdi would still belong to the greatest of the great for his achievements as a master of sacred music. His Vespro della Beata Vergine, published in 1610, is hailed as a landmark of the literature – and is the work instantly conjured whenever you hear the phrase “the Monteverdi Vespers.” But it was an altogether different setting of the Vespers service that Early Music Seattle presented at this concert, the most recent installment in the ongoing Northwest Baroque Masterworks Project.
Filed under: Monteverdi, review
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 