Venice Monteverdi Academy - Vespro Della Beata Vergine - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A very special recording and interpretation of the famous Vespers of the Virgin Mary; InchVespro della Beata VergineInch Roberto Zarpellon leads the vocal ensemble InchVenice Monteverdi AcademyInch; his ensemble InchLorenzo da PonteInch and the chorale schola InchReale Corte Armonica Caterina CornaroInch - all of them genuine Italians - in a recording that took place in the church where Monteverdi worked for three decades as Kapellmeister; namely the famous Basilica of San Marco in Venice. As far as music is concerned; this church with it's magnificent mosaics and domes as well as it's very transparent room acoustics was a place of pilgrimage for musicians and composers from near and far during the Renaissance and Baroque periods; with such illustrious names as Adrian Willaert; the organists Giovanni and Andrea Gabrieli and Monteverdi as maestro di capella.