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Monteverdi's Vespers from the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Simon-Pierre Bestion directs a performance of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) in an imaginative recreation of the way this great landmark of music history might have been heard at the Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice. Alongside the great choral psalm settings by Monteverdi himself, Simon-Pierre Bestion includes the Gregorian chants on which they are based. But he goes even further, by including songs from a manuscript in the Carpentras library. These anonymous songs reflect the centuries-long oral traditions found throughout the Mediterranean basin, their harmonies and inflections evoking the folk traditions of Italy, Sardinia and Corsica. These songs, the conductor suggests, would have found their way into any performance in early Baroque Venice, that great centre of economic and cultural exchange.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)

Am茅lie Raison, soprano
Brenda Poupard, alto
Aline Quentin, alto
Axelle Verner, alto
Fanny Ch芒telain, alto
Francisco Ma帽alich, tenor
S茅bastian Obrecht, tenor
Edouard Monjanel, tenor
Ren茅 Ramos Premier, baritone
Florent Martin, bass
Eug茅nie De Mey (baritone and chanter)

La Temp锚te
Simon-Pierre Bestion, conductor