Скачать или смотреть La Tempête / Simon-Pierre Bestion - Monteverdi's Vespro della beata vergine

With the Vespro della beata Vergine, Monteverdi wrote an ode to the Virgin as powerful as it is original. In an instant, the score flashes us back to the Mantua of 1610, where the composer was working at the time. With this demonstration of his technical prowess and versatility, Monteverdi would have aimed for an appointment to the papal chapel. That it eventually became the San Marco in Venice, no one will regret.

Artist in residence Simon-Pierre Bestion leads La Tempête from alleluia to amen in Monteverdi's concertant-contrapuntal vesper hymns. Bestion enriches the evening with catchy faux-bourdons from a contemporary source. We predict: choral parts that get under the skin, an orchestra that brims with colour and contrasts, and a carpet of sound that shimmers like the white horses on the Adriatic waves.

Watch the complete concert on emtv.online