Pre-Order: I Fagiolini * Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers [New CD] insert with essay [w/ download card] born under the sign of

born under the sign of rebirth and emancipation

Shogun of the North

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Anderson has spent decades mining the veins of the complicated

Pre-Order: I Fagiolini * Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers [New CD] insert with essay [w/ download card] born under the sign ofMonteverdi's 1610 Vespers is the landmark work of early Baroque music. It sits at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the new dramatic style heard in his first opera, L'Orfeo. 'The Vespers' redefined what sacred music could sound like emotionally immediate, virtuosic, both looking back to the past and driving forward into the future. Monteverdi specialists I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth have waited until their 40th birthday to record the