John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me

As he gets ready to conduct the Vespers for the 19th time, John Eliot Gardiner explains how it was Monteverdi's masterpiece that made him choose a career in musicMy relationship with Monteverdi goes back to when I was eight. The great French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, with whom I later studied in Paris, came to teach at the Bryanston summer school, just down the road from our family home in Dorset. This was in the early 1950s, and William Glock, who ran the school, brought Britten, Tippett, Hi...

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