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The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Vespro della Beata Vergine in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.A specialist Baroque ensemble, the Choir has become famous for its stylistic conviction and extensive repertoire, encompassing music from the Renaissance period to Classical music of the 20th century.
The music is based on the opening toccata from Monteverdi's 1607 opera L'Orfeo, [27] to which the choir sings a falsobordone (a style of recitation) on the same chord. [44] The music has been described as "a call to attention" and "a piece whose brilliance is only matched by the audacity of its conception".
Claudio Monteverdi was active as a composer for almost six decades in the late 16th and early seventeenth centuries, essentially the period of period of transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or ...
This is a discography of the recordings of Vespro della Beata Vergine by Claudio Monteverdi – also known as his Vespers of 1610.Since the first vinyl recordings of the work in 1953, the Vespers have been recorded in numerous versions.
The English Baroque Soloists often appear with John Eliot Gardiner's choir, the Monteverdi Choir. In 1990 Gardiner formed the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, another period instrument ensemble. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique specialises in a later repertoire than that of the English Baroque Soloists, but shares some players.
English: Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine performed in St. Martin, Idstein, in a choral concert by Chor St. Martin, Martinis, Schola Cantorum Gallensis (Andreas Großmann), Capella San Marco, conducted by Franz Fink, with soloists Elisabeth Scholl, Lieselotte Fink, Christian Rohrbach, Mirko Ludwig, Fabian Kelly, Johannes Hill, and organist Peter Reulein, applause after the concert
The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre. Of these, both the music and libretto for three are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Seven other opera projects are known ...
The Stattkus-Verzeichnis (SV) is a catalogue of the musical compositions of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. The catalogue was published in 1985 by Manfred H. Stattkus (Claudio Monteverdi: Verzeichnis der erhaltenen Werke). A free, basic second edition of the catalogue is available online. [1] Manfred H. Stattkus died in August 2012.